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From: "Pierre De weck" <pierre_deweck54@mail.ru> (may be fake)
Reply-To: pierre_deweck01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:29:39 +0100
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE
FROM THE DESK OF PIERRE DE WECK.
UNITED KINGDOM.
+447024075128
GOOD DAY ,
(URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION)
I am the manager at the auditing and accounting department of one of the commercial banks here in United Kingdom In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$33.5m dollars ( US dollars) in an account belonging to one of our foreign customer Andreas Schranner.Who died along with his entire family on Monday,31 July,2000 in a plane crash in paris.
Please visit this site that is one of the evidence .http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money, because we cannot release it unless somebody applies
for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation 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 and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner.I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your designated bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased
with a text of application that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I will not fail to bring to
your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on my private email box:pierre_deweck01@yahoo.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Regards,
Yours Faithfully,
Pierre De weck.
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