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From: "Mr. Rowland Lauterburg" <rowinv57@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rowland_lauterburg@o2.pl
Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:50:04 +0000
Subject: Partnership Business Proposal
Dear Partner,Please do not let this come to you as a surprise; I amonly contacting you because I need you as a foreignpartner in transaction. I am Rowland Lauterburg, amanagement staff in a bank in Switzerland. I amcontacting you on business transfer of a huge sum ofmoney from a deceased account. Though I know that atransaction of this magnitude will make any oneapprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you thatall will be well at the end of the day. We decided tocontact you due to the urgency of this transaction.We discovered an abandoned sum of Eighteen MillionFive Hundred Thousand United States Dollars($18,500,000.00) in an account that belongs to one ofour foreign customers, Harunna Muhammad. We believedthat this fund belongs to Saddam Hussein becauseHarunna Muhammad is an associate of Saddam Hussein andhe died in the war in Iraq because after the war, noone has come forward to lay claims for this money asthe heir and there has been no contact from either himor any one to the bank. We cannot release the fundfrom his account unless someone applies for claim asthe next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in ourbanking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seekyour permission to have you stand as a next of kin tothe deceased as all documentations will be carefullyworked out by us for the funds ($18,500,000.00) to bereleased in your favor as the beneficiary's next ofkin. It may interest you to know that we have securedfrom the probate an order of mandamus to locate any ofdeceased beneficiaries.Please acknowledge receipt of this message inacceptance of our mutual business endeavor byfurnishing me with your full names, your completeaddress, a direct telephone and fax numbers for bettercommunication. These requirements will enable us fileletter of claim to the appropriate departments fornecessary approvals in your favor before the transfercan be made. You shall be compensated with 40% of thisMoney on final conclusion of this project. I findmyself privileged to have this information and this isa great opportunity of a life time of success withoutrisks.I await your urgent response to this proposal so thatI can give you more modalities on how we intend tocarry out this transaction without breaking anyinternational money laws.Please send your reply to [rowland_lauterburg@o2.pl].My Regards,Mr. Rowland Lauterburg.
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