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From: "dridrissu ahmed" <dridrissu_ahmed3@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 16:58:34 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEDEED
FROM. Dr. IDRISSU AHMED.
THE MANAGER OF AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPT,
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA-FASO.
Dear Partner, (TOP SECRET)
How are you doing with your family? I presume that all is Well with you .My
name is Dr. IDRISSU AHMED I am the manager of audit and accounting
department at the foreign unit of our bank.I got your contact from the
international directory when i was Looking for a foreigner who will assist
me to achieve a great success business that will yeild us life success.
before i wrote you,i prayed that you will be a honest and reliable person
whom i can work with to achieve this deal of our life.
>From my section in the bank, I discovered an abandoned sum of TWENTY TWO
MILLION THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($22.3m) that belongs
to one of our customer who died along with his entire famillies,on 25TH
JULY,2000 CONCORDE PLANE CRASH[Flight AF4590 ] with the whole passengers
aboard.The name of the deceased man was (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from
Munich,Germany.You have to understand that i come acrossed this huge amount
of money when i was arranging the departmental customers file to submit to
the bank management for the annual audit of the year.
Since the bank got information about the death of the deceased man, the bank
have been expecting his next of kin to apply and claim his money because the
bank cannot release the fund unless a person from any foreign countries
apply for the transfer of the fund as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately i learnt
through investigations that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore
upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you
so that you will apply for the bank will release the money to you as the
next of kin or relation for safety and subsequent sharing since nobody is
coming for it.
For us to achieve this businesss immediately,the percentage ratio for
sharing the fund when the bank release the fund for you must be arrangedSo i
accept that thirty one percent of the fund(31%) will be for you as a
foreigner for the provision of any bank account where the bank will transfer
the money into including other of your particiaption during the process of
the transfer,Sixty percent (60%) will be for me as the person who explores
the business,Four percent of the fund (4%) will be for the expenses which
may come forth during the transfer of the fund, while 5% will be shared to
the helpless peoples around us in the world such as,motherless
babies,charity homes,disable peoples and so on.
Thereafter I will visit your country for sharing the money according to the
percentages indicated above.So for the immediate transfer of this fund into
your bank account as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as the only
existening next of kin to the deceased customer by indicating in the
application the bank account formation where you will request the bank to
transfer the fund into.
So if you accept to help me in other to achieve this great business,i will
send to you through email or by fax an application form of claim which you
will fill with your account information and send to the bank for the
transaction to start immediately.Please i would like you to know the
following information.(1.) This business is HUNDRED PERCENT FREE FROM
RISK.(2.)You will not face any questions because the application will bear
the brief information of the deceased which the bank may like to know.(3.)
If you will follow my instruction and directives,this transaction will be
completed within a short period of time.(4.)You should keep this business
CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET untill the fund get transfered into your account.
N.B.In orther to proceed and beleive me honestly over this transaction, i
would like you to try and go through this (wedsite) below and come back to
me as soon as you are through with it so that we should proceed the effect
of this transaction.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm).Please i needed your
urgent response over this transaction.
.
My regards to you and your family.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. IDRISSU AHMED.
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