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Richard Bollard
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 4:42 am    Post subject: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.
Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

Dear Friend,

I am writing you this proposal on behalf of my chambers. I got your
information through my personal search for a honest person whom i will
work with,hence I decided to seek your veiws if you will work with me,
due to the sensitivity of this transaction a nd my position as a
lawyer.

I am Barrister Paul Harden from UK, representing Mr. Martin Greenberg,
a foreign, Engineer by profession, who died since 1999, in an Egypt
Air crash, on the 31st October along with other passengers on board.

Before his death, he has a huge sum of (US$25.5) which no other person
knew about, he intended to invest in Southern part of Africa. This
fund has NO other beneficiary and I have the original documents of
Deposit/claim certificate to claim the money of w hich the amount

involved is (US$25.5M) Twenty Five Millions five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars.

The fund is rigth now under the custody of a Security Company, which I
will not like to disclose at the moment until I confirm your
willingness to assist me in this project.

Early this year, the Security Company sent me a letter, since I was
his lawyer, asking me to present his NEXT OF KIN, to enable them
release the said funds.

My disire is to be able to source a foreign partner who is honest and
trustworthy

individual,so that I can present to the Security Company as the NEXT
OF KIN of the Late Mr. Greenberg so that the fund can be release to
him/her.

If you are willing to assist me in this transaction, your compensation
will be (20% ), while I receives (70%) and the balance of (10%) for
taxes and other miscellaneous expenses.

This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat the transaction
with utmost secrecy and confidentiality and also with my position as
Esquire, I will perfect all the necessary documents on your name as
soon as you are ready to do this deal with me.


Endeavour to email me the following information at harden2@zwallet.com

Names, Address, Phone and Fax Numbers, Age, Sex, Marital Status and
Occupation.


Thank you and God Bless,

Barrister. Paul Harden
ATTORNEY -AT- LAW

--
Richard Bollard
Canberra, Australia
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Peter Duncanson
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:29 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:42:24 +1000, Richard Bollard
<richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

Quote:
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

This impostor should have tried harder to get some formalities correct.

Quote:
Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.

The Paul Harden at that address was a solicitor not a barrister.

Quote:
Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

That of course is not the email address of the Real PH.

<snip>
Quote:
Thank you and God Bless,

Barrister. Paul Harden

If he were a real English barrister chappie he would be
"Paul Harden, Barrister"

Quote:
ATTORNEY -AT- LAW

A fine sounding title that is not used in England.

There are various other bloomers of the legal kind [1] which even I, a
non-lawyer, can see.

Over to the grammarians, syntactitians and semanticisers.

[1] As opposed to opium poppies.
--
Peter Duncanson
UK (posting from a.u.e)
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Don Phillipson
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 6:33 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

"Richard Bollard" <richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message
news:cmnie1d4oonnc3l7e1a38igff09kvpe3ov@4ax.com...

Quote:
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.
Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

www.zwallet.com posts for its clients:

13. Governing Law
Any action related to this Agreement will be governed by the laws of the
state of New York, United States of America, without reference to rules
governing choice of laws, and you irrevocably consent to the jurisdiction of
such courts.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
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Lars Eighner
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:10 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

In our last episode,
<NqfGe.31595$dN6.6809@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>,
the lovely and talented Adrian Bailey
broadcast on alt.usage.english:

Quote:
"Richard Bollard" <richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message
news:cmnie1d4oonnc3l7e1a38igff09kvpe3ov@4ax.com...
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

I'm afraid it's you who needs the tips: the missive you attached wasn't
written by an Englishman.

Gee whiz, thanks, Captain Obvious!

--
Lars Eighner eighner@io.com http://www.larseighner.com/
I don't see posts from or threads started from googlegroups.
Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. --Tom Stoppard
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Adrian Bailey
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:10 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

"Richard Bollard" <richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message
news:cmnie1d4oonnc3l7e1a38igff09kvpe3ov@4ax.com...
Quote:
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

I'm afraid it's you who needs the tips: the missive you attached wasn't
written by an Englishman.

Adrian
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Richard Bollard
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:11 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:29:39 +0100, Peter Duncanson
<mail@peterduncanson.net> wrote:

Quote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:42:24 +1000, Richard Bollard
richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

This impostor should have tried harder to get some formalities correct.

Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.

The Paul Harden at that address was a solicitor not a barrister.

Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

That of course is not the email address of the Real PH.

<YJ>
There IS a Real PH!!! LOL
</YJ>


--
Richard Bollard
Canberra, Australia
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Richard Bollard
Guest





Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 7:11 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:15:25 GMT, "Adrian Bailey" <dadge@hotmail.com>
wrote:

Quote:
"Richard Bollard" <richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote in message
news:cmnie1d4oonnc3l7e1a38igff09kvpe3ov@4ax.com...
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

I'm afraid it's you who needs the tips: the missive you attached wasn't
written by an Englishman.


Really?! Omigod.

(Who says we don't need emoticons?)
--
Richard Bollard
Canberra, Australia
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Steve Hayes
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:42:24 +1000, Richard Bollard
<richardbDELETETHIS@amt.canberra.edu.au> wrote:

Quote:
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.
Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

Nigerians are everywhere these days.

There are a lot of them in Kuwait too, or pretending to be.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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Steve Hayes
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 1:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 01:29:39 +0100, Peter Duncanson <mail@peterduncanson.net>
wrote:

Quote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:42:24 +1000, Richard Bollard
Barrister. Paul Harden

If he were a real English barrister chappie he would be
"Paul Harden, Barrister"

ATTORNEY -AT- LAW

A fine sounding title that is not used in England.

And means solicitor, not barrister.


--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734/stevesig.htm
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk
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sage
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Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 7:12 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

Richard Bollard wrote:
Quote:
This was sent to one of my work mailboxes. This English barrister
chappie obviously needs some help with his language skills and I
thought that AUErs, collectively, might be able to give him a few
tips.

Paul Harden & Co
Swan Centre, Fishers Lane
Chiswick London, W4 1RX. UK.
Email:- harden1@zwallet.com

Dear Friend,

I am writing you this proposal on behalf of my chambers. I got your
information through my personal search for a honest person whom i will
work with,hence I decided to seek your veiws if you will work with me,
due to the sensitivity of this transaction a nd my position as a
lawyer.

I am Barrister Paul Harden from UK, representing Mr. Martin Greenberg,
a foreign, Engineer by profession, who died since 1999, in an Egypt
Air crash, on the 31st October along with other passengers on board.

Before his death, he has a huge sum of (US$25.5) which no other person
knew about, he intended to invest in Southern part of Africa. This
fund has NO other beneficiary and I have the original documents of
Deposit/claim certificate to claim the money of w hich the amount

involved is (US$25.5M) Twenty Five Millions five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars.

The fund is rigth now under the custody of a Security Company, which I
will not like to disclose at the moment until I confirm your
willingness to assist me in this project.

Early this year, the Security Company sent me a letter, since I was
his lawyer, asking me to present his NEXT OF KIN, to enable them
release the said funds.

My disire is to be able to source a foreign partner who is honest and
trustworthy

individual,so that I can present to the Security Company as the NEXT
OF KIN of the Late Mr. Greenberg so that the fund can be release to
him/her.

If you are willing to assist me in this transaction, your compensation
will be (20% ), while I receives (70%) and the balance of (10%) for
taxes and other miscellaneous expenses.

This transaction is 100% risk free provided you treat the transaction
with utmost secrecy and confidentiality and also with my position as
Esquire, I will perfect all the necessary documents on your name as
soon as you are ready to do this deal with me.


Endeavour to email me the following information at harden2@zwallet.com

Names, Address, Phone and Fax Numbers, Age, Sex, Marital Status and
Occupation.


Thank you and God Bless,

Barrister. Paul Harden
ATTORNEY -AT- LAW

I forwarded my copy to Phonebusters.


Cheers, Sage
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Peter Moylan
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Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2005 6:04 am    Post subject: Re: Now the English are at it Reply with quote

Richard Bollard wrote:

Quote:
Before his death, he has a huge sum of (US$25.5) which no other person
knew about, he intended to invest in Southern part of Africa.

Yet another example of how bad poverty has become in some parts of Africa.

--
Peter Moylan peter at ee dot newcastle dot edu dot au
http://eepjm.newcastle.edu.au (OS/2 and eCS information and software)
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