Firstly forgive the cheesy photograph of Senior Partner (taken following a visit to the beaiutiful Plaza de Velarde in Santander in Spain) - we will upload one shortly of the four Alexander JLO Partners in our firm, tripping down memory lane, walking over that famous zebra crossing at Abbey Road - we are still Beatles fans!
So here is how the scam works. You will receive an email from a law firm. You Google the name of the law firm and it turns out to be real, it has its own web-site. So you start taking the email seriously. It asks to be your friend - it wants to create an association, an alliance, with you. And the email comes from a lawyer within the firm- say a Mr Leicester. The names always sound as if they should be very English, but anyone in England will tell you the name is so unusual that it probably doesn't exist here.
The email you receive tells you that one of your relatives (funnily enough with the same surname) has died and his estate has not yet been distributed because his next of kin can't be tracked down. Mr Leicester wants you to contact him to check out whether you are the lucky person to inherit the money. More on this scam later!
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