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From: "DAVID OWEN" <owend_1960@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 18:20:34 +0100
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE
--Bills and ExchangeStandard Chartered BankLondon.
Hello Dear ,
First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring that this is real and genuine. I am the director, bills and exchange at the foreign remittance department of the Standard Chartered Bank London. I came to know you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction,which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.MY PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of US£14,320,000.00 (fourteen million three hundred and twenty thousand British Pounds) in an account that belongs to one of our customers(Andreas Schranner ) who died along with his wife and entire family on 25th July, 2000,Air France Concorde flight 4590 plane crash.Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims for this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, unfortunately,no family member nor relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund.Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as next of kin to the deceased so that the funds (Fourteen million three hundred and twenty thousand British Pounds) can be released and paid into your account as the beneficiary's next of kin otherwise the fund will be returned to treasury as unclaimed funds. All documents to enable you receive this funds will be carefully worked out.Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;1. Your name and address 2. Direct Telephone and fax numbers These requirements will enable us file letters of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;On final conclusion of this project, 65% of this shall be for us, while 25% shall be for you and the remaining 10% shall be used to compensate either party for any expenses incurred. Your share 25% stays while,while our 65% share shall be used for investment purposes in your country.For your confirmations,you can visit this website for more info Http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent mail. Please reply to davidowen@eqqu.comBest Regards, DAVID OWEN
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