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From: Steven Johnson <stevenjo16@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: 9 Jul 2008 04:08:29 -0500
Subject: Business proposal
>From The Desk Of Mr.Steven Johnson
Senior Staff In File Department,
African Development Bank A.D.B
Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso
West Africa
Compliment Of The Season,
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Steven Johnson a senior staff in file department in African development bank (A.D.B).I got your contact from the internet business Search.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10 million U.S.A dollars (Ten million U.S dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in (Friday December 26, 2003) in a plane crash.
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 guidelines,
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 have now decided here in my department to make this business proposal to you so that the bank will 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 guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner,
And a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, while 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my family. There after I and my family will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, 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 that 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 can go through the site for confirmation http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
Pls contact me immediately you receive this proposal for more details about the deal.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr.Steven Johnson
Private tel: +22678817532
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