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From: "nu ni" <kemical005@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: esqmartinfreeman@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:42:03 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE
Mr Martin Freeman
First Investment Bank Plc,
41 Lothbury,London, EC2P 2BP,
United Kingdom.
Dear friend,
You may be surprised to receive my letter. However, I got
your contact as a result of my desperate desire for
assistance. Though this mail is unsolicited, I pray you to be
humane and consider it. I have decided to contact you for
confidential, urgent and rewarding joint business. I am
Martin Freeman Branch Manager, First Investment Bank Plc.
In January 2002, one of my customer (foreigner) who is a
consultant/General contractor here in United Kingdom,
made a numbered time Fixed) Deposit, valued at
$11,500,000.00 (Eleven Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars), for twelve (12) calendar months in my
Bank branch.
Upon maturity, we sent a routine notification to his home
address but got no reply.I have since then made several
enquiries to his Embassy as his accounts officer in a bid to
locate any relation of my client and these efforts of mine
have not been productive for over five years now,finally we
discovered from his contact employers that he is no longer
on earth as he died in a car accident along with all members
of his family .Hence the need to get someone to assist me in
securing the money and property left behind by my client
before they are declared as unclaimed and unserviceable by
the bank where they have been lodged for safekeeping.
This is because my Bank has just issued a notice to me,
unequivocally instructing me as his accounts officer to
produce the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the said account
within the next ten official working days, or have the
account confiscated. Considering my lack of success in my
bid to locate his relatives for so long and with the fact that
the bank would claim this funds that they did not work for or
suffer with my late client to get,i solicit your consent to
enable me produce you as a distant relative /Next of Kin to
my deceased client and the funds will then be transferred to
you as the beneficiary and shared according to a proposed
sharing pattern we both agree on.
We will provide to the bank all the necessary legally
obtained documents that the bank might require to back up
any claim we make regarding this process,and will just
require your understanding and cooperation to enable us
achieve success within a legitimate arrangement,eliminating
any liability resulting from any breach of the prevalent laws.
Your urgent response will be highly appreciated and i would
appreciate it if you keep this deal strictly confidential . If this
proposal interest you, please include Your private phone
and Fax number, full contact address,Your country, date of
birth and occupation for the legal documentation of the said
fund.
Thank you.
Best Regards,
Martins Freeman (Esq)
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