From: "Mr. Larry Ken" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <larryken.mr@rediffmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 10:23:53 +0200
Subject: Good day my trusted friend

ATTN :Sir/Madam

My name is Mr. Larry Ken. the personal accountant to Late Engr.Micheal Eric,a nationality of your country and a former Engineering Contractor, who works with the (Chevron/Texaco) an Oil & Gas servicing and distribution company base in Benin Republic West Africa, Here in after shall be referred to as my client.

On July 31th, 2007, my client and his entire family died in a Car Accident which occure along Airport express Road in Cotonou Benin. Since that incidence, I have made several inquiries through your embassy and consulate to see if I could trace any member of my clients extended relative(s) but all to no avail.


After these several unsuccessful attempts and fruitless effort, I decided to track down any one from your country over the Internet to locate any member of his extended relatives or any one from his country hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating these large sum of money (funds)at about $12.5 Million USD (Twelve million Five hundred thousand United state Dollars), which was left behind by my late client before his death in 2007. These huge amounts were particularly lodged with the our bank here were i work. An affiliate of Commercial Bank of Africa where the deceased lodged the money before his demise.


The Bank has issued an ultimatum to present the next of kin/relative of the deceased since i am his personal accountant, or has the account confiscated and closed as unserviceable account by the Bank here. Since I have made several unsuccessful attempts in locating the deceased relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your honest consent to present you as the Heir apparent to the deceased (Next-of-Kin) since you both of you are from the same country, so that the proceeds of this account valued $12.5 Million United States Dollars would be paid into your account, then you and I can Share the money..50% to me and 50% to you. I will use my position as a member investigation committee of the bank to underground every thing and make sure that the fund is transferred into you account.
I will present the Certificate of DEPOSIT AND THE BANK TEXT OF APPLICATION that can be used to back up this claim.



I must give you absolute guarantee that this transaction would be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of law, and I must also assure you that all modalities for the successful transaction have been set in place, so everything will be perfectly worked out without hitch. All I required from you now is your mutual understanding and honest cooperation to enable us seeing this Deal through.


And the way we are going to achieve this is, I will need the following information from you;

Your Full Names
Address home/ office
Your Age,
Occupation and Position
Your Telephone, Mobile and Fax number
Scam copy of your identification

I await your reply ASAP

Best Regards
Mr. Larry Ken