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From: "adam ahmed" <adam.ahmed02@gmail.com>
Reply-To: adam.ahmed02@hotmail.fr
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:39:48 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENCIAL/URGENT/ASSISTANT
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*FROM THE DESK OF MR.ADAM AHMED*
*AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANEGER ,
BANK OF AFRICAN B.O.A
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of auditing and accounting at the foreign remittance
department of BANK OF AFRICAN) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12.5m dollars (TWELVE MILLON
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our
for eign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died
along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash. Since we
gotinformation about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to
come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body
applies for it as next of kin or relation to thedeceased as indicated in our
banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed
next of kin or relationdied 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 and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
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*I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision of a foriegn account ,5% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 55% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit
yourcountry for disbursement according to the percentageindicated
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you
must apply first to the bank asrelation or next of kin of the deceased with
a text of application that i willsend to you,so i will like you to send to
me your private telephone and faxnumber for easy and effective communication
and location where in 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 bringto 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
receiv e this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully
1. Full Name:
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.*
*MR.ADAM AHMED*
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