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From: "Dinther Helmut Udo"<dinther500@ymail.com>
Reply-To: <dinther4@sify.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:31:06 +0300
Subject: Great opportunity.
Mr. Dinther Helmut UdoValiant Privat Bank AGPostfach,3001 Bern,Switzerland.Confidential Tel : +870-764107753Confidential Fax : +870-764107751Email: dinther300@sify.comHello,I am contacting you on a business transaction of a huge sum of moneyfrom a deceased account, though I know a transaction of this magnitudewill make any one apprehensive and worried, but I’m assuring you thatall will be well at the end of the day and this is why am contactingyou due to the urgency of this transaction.We discovered an abandoned sum of (Seven million five hundredThousand United States dollars) in an account that belongs to one ofOur foreign customer who died along side with his entire family, and everSince his death none of his next of kin or relations has come forwardto lay claims for this money as his heir.We cannot release the funds from his account unless someone applies forClaim as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated on our bankingGuidelines. And upon this discovery we now seek your permission to haveyou stand as a next of kin to the deceased in which all documentationsWill be carefully worked out by us for the (Seven million five hundredThousand United States dollars) to be released in your favour as theBeneficiary’s/next of kin to the deceased. And It may interest you toknow that we have secured from the probate an order of mandamus tolocate any of the deceased beneficiary.Kindly acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of ourmutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following;1. Beneficiary name and contact address.2. Direct telephone, fax and Mobile numbers.3. Date of birth and occupation.These requirements will enable us file letter of claim to the appropriatedepartments and authorities for necessary approvals for the release ofthe funds in your favour, before the transfer can be made to you. And wewill be compensating you with thirty percent of the total funds on finalconclusion of this project, while the rest will be for us and forinvestment purposes. And If this proposal is acceptable by you, do nottake undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you.NB: If you are willing to assist me, including the information's i haverequested from you, call me on my confidential Tel: +870-764107753.For further details on what to do next.Please Respond to Email: dinther300@sify.comI await your response and call.Regards,Mr. Dinther Helmut Udo.Confidential Tel : +870-764107753Confidential Fax : +870-764107751
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