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From: Margaret Giwa <maggie_g8@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: maggie1963@emailpinoy.com
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:51:13 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Urgent Cry of Help!!!(From Mrs. Margaret)
Dear Friend,
I send you this e-mail with all humility and everyseriousness of heart; believing that you will be the instrument God will use to help me and my two daughters in this predicament due to the unfortunate death of my husband. But I hope and so believe that you will lift off this burden from my shoulder.
I am Mrs. Margaret Olufunmilayo Giwa, wife of late Chief Micheal Rufus Foluso Giwa, the erstwhile Chairman/Managing Director of Unilever Nigeria Plc. (formerly Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited) who died on Wednesday, November 26, 2005 along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in a ghastly motor accident while travelling to his home town in Ondo State.
My predicament started with the tradition of property-grabbing on my late husband's properties by his family. What followed after was that I and my children were asked to vacate my matrimonial home by my late husband's brothers so that they can absorbed with all my late husband's properties a month after his funeral, relying on tribal traditionsn (beliefs and custom of their clan) just because I did not bear a male child for my husband before his death whom they believed would have inherited his estates.
This suddenly destitute me as a widow and had to scrambled to get help from a member of our Church who through her humane kindness, gave us (I and my two daughters) an apartment to lay our heads in her house.
As the beneficiary next-of-kin to my late husband's funds he deposited in a Security Company here in Nigeria. before the incident that led to his death, I was fortunate to have left the house with all the vital documents relating to my late husband funds in the custody of the security company which had a closing balance of $9,690,000.00 (Nine Million, Six Hundred and Ninety Thousand United States Dollars). When I visited the security company last week, the Branch Manager reliably informed me that I can come for the claim of the funds at any point in time and when so desired. The truth of the matter right now is that I cannot make use of this funds here due to the forces surrounding me concerning my late husband's family hence the reason why I am soliciting for your assistance to help me and my children out of this situation before my late husband's brothers gets to know where we are staying and equally seized the documents to this funds from me.
All I need from you is your trust and honesty to assist me,you may need to give me sufficient assurance that you will not sit on this fund when it is finally move through a Diplomatic Services to you in your country,in this situation by providing me your contact address,phone number,fax number,age and your occupation so that I can immediately instruct the security company to have the funds move through a Diplomatic Services to you before any of my late husband's brothers or family gets to know about it.
I strongly believe that the only way I can secure the funds for myself and my children is to have the funds transfered overseas and after you must have received from the diplomat agents and confirmed the funds, I and my children would then make appropriate travelling arrangement to come and meet with you in your country. I have mapped out and agreed that if you can help me in this matter, you will retain 20% of the total funds,10% will be for any other expenses that might occurs, while 70% will come to myself and my children and good part of this shall be directed towards executing his will which is to buy shares and stocks in your country to securities his children's future.
For more information on the controversial exit of my husband, you can get the full import of the story on ThisDay Newspapers, one of Nigeria's dailies on Page 1 (front page) of Thursday, November 27th, 2005 edition at ThisDay's website: www.thisdayonline.com or any other Nigerian newspaper or newsmagazine of the same date or thereafter.
Write me back immediately through my private email: maggie_g4@yahoo.com .So he can start the processing of the transaction in your's name as the beneficiary . I thank you most sincerely, for your time and your anticipated assistance and I look forward to hearing from you soon. May Almighty God bless you!
Sincerely,
MRS. MARGARET O. GIWA
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