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From: "Oliver Law Chambers" <oliver_lawchambers23@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:05:41 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER KEN OLIVER (SAN),
SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA.
PLOT 72 IKOYI CRESENT,
VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS,
NIGERIA
E-MAIL: barristerkenoliver@gmail.com
In anticipation that you will accept my warmest regards, which I extend to you, I urge you to kindly read thru this very urgent letter.
My name is barrister Ken Oliver (SAN). I wish to inform you of a pending matter that will be of mutual interest to both of us. I am the attorney to a foreign client in Nigeria, by name Mr. Scot Mitchell, he worked as an expatriate with Chevron Oil and Gas Exploration Company. He unfortunately lost his life, along with the entire members of his family, comprising of his wife and two kids, in a fatal air crash that occurred on, 24th of October 2005 on the BELLVIEW AIRLINES FLIGHT 210, which crashed in Lissa, Ogun State, Nigeria. Kindly refer to the aforementioned website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4368516.stm). I represented him in numerous business concerns here in Nigeria.
One of such concerns is that my client maintained an account with a leading bank in my country, his account balance stands at Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars Only, ($ 7,500,000). The managing director of the bank, contacted me at the end of there yearly audit, and inquired concerning the account deposit made by my client, which nictitated us scheduling a meeting together. At the meeting we, discovered that the duration period for the account to remain dormant has expired and that such funds statutorily belongs to the next of kin to my late client. Upon perusing through his codicil we discovered that he did not state a next of kin in the bank deposit form filled by him at the bank. The M.D. informed me that if I don’t locate and declare a next of kin on behalf of my client, he would be forced to declare the account as an unclaimed and un-serviced account which will be confiscated by the Central bank Of Nigeria. I then told him, that my client has a next of kin overseas, whom is listed in other official declaration made by client. The M.D. of the bank then asked if I had initiated any contacts with the next of kin, which I confirmed. At this point he requested that the next of kin should contact the bank, for the remittance of his relatives account balance.
Having explained to you the details concerning this matter, I wish to implore your assistance in clearing the release of the account deposit. I wish to present you as the next of kin to my late client of blessed memory, so as to enable you receive the account balance from the bank as the next of kin to the deceased. It is clearly stated within the banking policy that it is the statutory right of the owner of an account to state any individual as the next of kin to his account within his codicil, and upon the death of the account owner the right of such is waived onto his attorney. For your assistance in this transaction you will keep fifty percent, (50%) of the account balance, out of the remaining balance, ten percent (10%) will be used to offset any expenses incurred during the period of this transaction. Finally, this is where I place my trust in you, by asking that you safeguard the remaining forty percent, (40%), pending my arrival into your country, as I will be leaving my country once this transaction is concluded.
Reply me through my private mail box, barristerkenoliver@gmail.com stating the required information below.
1. NAME: ________________
2. FULL ADDRESS: ________________
3. TELEPHONE: ________________
Thanks & Best Regards,
Barrister Ken Oliver (SAN)
SENIOR ADVOCATE OF NIGERIA
E-MAIL: barristerkenoliver@gmail.com
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