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From: BARRISTER OKOH FRANK <frankokoh292@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: frankokoh_2002@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:30:14 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Please Read And Reply Soon
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: frankokoh292@yahoo.com
- FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER OKOH FRANK?????FRANK & ASSOCIATE CHAMBERS44, KOFO ABAYOMI AVENUE ,VICTORIA ISLAND,LAGOS - NIGERIA .PHONE NUMBER.234-808-836-5325Email: frankokoh_2002@yahoo.com.hkAttention: Please kindly accept my apology for sending unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly respected personality, considering the fact that I sourced your profile from a human resource profile database on your country. Though, I do not know to what extent you are familiar with events.Well, I am Barrister Okoh Frank, a Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr. Steve Anderson, who used to work with Agip Oil Company in Nigeria . On the 21st of April 2003, his wife and their three children wereinvolved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road . Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event of the accident.Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several unsucces!
sful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any member of his family but to no avail, hence, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left behind by myclient in a Finance Company. Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased deposited the US $15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only). Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to provide the Next of Kin to claim the US $15 Million (Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in their custody within the next ten official workingdays.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 3 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased to claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that thefund will be transferred to your account by the Finance House. Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund and then you and I will share the money in this order!
: 70% will be for me, 30% will be for you. I have all the necessary le
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