Dennis Kushnerek has lots of unanswered questions and at least one warning for area residents after receiving in the mail an unexpected letter promising him millions of dollars.
“Don't fall for this one,” said Kushnerek.
The 9th Ave. NE resident said he was immediately suspicious of a letter that was included with the mail he picked up out of his post office box last Thursday.
The letter was purportedly from an attorney in Spain and was asking Kushnerek to help him get a vault containing $9.4 million released from a safety security company in Spain.
“Right away I suspected that no, this isn't true because of the non-post mark on the envelope,” said Kushnerek.
No return address was visible on the envelope, there was no stamp and no post mark, and the address written on the envelope was his house address and not his post office box number where he receives all his mail.
Deeping the plot was that the purported attorney was allegedly working on behalf of his client, a Marek Kushnerek, who supposedly lived in Spain prior to perishing along with his family in a tsunami catastrophe in December of 2004.
The only factual information in the letter that Dennis Kushnerek could pick out was his name, spelled correctly, and his actual home address.
“It makes me feel unsecure due to the fact that what else is out there. Who else has this information?”
Believing it a scam, Kushnerek said he laughed as he read on.
The letter writer apologizes for the unsolicited mail and then explains the situation.
“I am conscious that this is certainly not a predictable way of approach to foster a relationship of trust but because of the circumstances and urgency surrounding this claim,” the letter read.
Before the purported attorney's client Marek Kushnerek had died, he deposited a trunk box/diplomatic personal treasure containing the sum of $9.4 million with a safe security company in Spain.
The purported attorney said he has been asked by the security company to present a member of his client's family to make a claim on the vault or it will be confiscated as unclaimed.
“I know you may not be anyway related to my late client but having a common surname with him and the modality I have in place, I can guarantee that if you follow my instructions (the rules of law) and capitalizing of some judicial loop holes the vault will be release to us,” the letter reads, complete with improper English and grammar.
Once the consignment is released, the letter writer says he would split the $9.4 million 50/50 with Kushnerek.
“Mind you this transaction is 100 per cent risk free; there is not atom of risk connected to this business as I have worked out all modalities to complete the operation effectively,” the letter reads.
The letter then urges Kushnerek to “get back” to him if Kushnerek is not willing to collaborate so he can further his search for another partner.
The Sundre man has no intention of responding to the letter and planned to make RCMP aware of the scam as well as anyone else he could.
“If I can help somebody out just by making them aware of this scam, then I'll feel better,” he said.
He advises anyone receiving unsolicited mail such as this to always consult with someone else, even a professional, so as not to be taken in by a scam.
