From: "Salim Zaid" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <salimzaid09@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:57:39 -0800
Subject: can you handle this?

Attention:

This email is strictly confidential and if receiving it does not please you, kindly delete it and speak to nobody about it please to avoid

complications. For more proof about it kindly click on the BBC News website below and read carefully to confirm every history about the death of Mr. John Shumejda.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/1742404.stm

My name is Mr. Salim Zaid, a Syrian/British, I work with a well-known financial house here in London and I am the personal account officer to the late Mr. John Shumejda who died in a plane crash in the year 2002 when a private jet crashed during take-off from Birmingham Airport. I had a private meeting with My late client the same day before the crash and this gentleman had plans of investing over GBP 10 Million Great British

Pounds sterling into some venture in Dubai and making me the manager of that venture upon my retirement in some month's time. Mr. John Shumejda is a very close friend and big client; we believe so much in him and what I advise him. I was shocked and I almost died when I heard of his sudden death after some hours after both of us spoke together.

A few months ago, I received a MEMO from my bank as his account officer where I was told that since the death of Mr. John Shumejda in 2002, no one has ever come forth as his next of kin to make an inquiry about his deposit with the Bank, therefore, I have been mandated to search for his next of kin and present to the bank between now and end of this month otherwise his deposited funds will be cancelled and send to the UK
Government Treasury Account for confiscation. And all effort to locate any of his family members has proven unfruitful and as far as I know, Mr. Shumejda has no next of kin because he has no children and his wife also died a few years after the death of her husband because she could not bear the pains.

Therefore, I am contacting you to stand as my foreign partner to claim as next of kin to late Mr. John Shumejda so that the bank can release his deposit amounting to the sum of GBP £ 55,780,000.00 [Fifty Five Million, Seven Hundred and Eighty Thousand Great British Pounds Sterling] in your favour. And once the money is released into your bank account, we will share the total sum via the following ratio 45% for you as my trusted partner, 55% for me as the initiator and founder of the deal. I want to assure you that this transaction is 100% hitch-free as I have everything

planned out already, all you need to do is to follow my instructions as I am going to present you before the bank management. If you are willing to work with me and you can be trusted, kindly get back to me for us to proceed.The time given to me by the bank is almost up and I cannot let them confiscate the account as I have told that once I fail to provide his next of kin, the Bank will turn some part of the money into the government account and the rest will be shared among the board of directors of the bank.

I believe that this is my chance and a great opportunity to make the most of what life has given to me and whoever will stand as next of kin to claim the funds, like said before, do not reply to me if you have no intention to follow me through with this transaction.

I had to make a trip to convince my directors that I had gone in search of the next of kin to Mr. John Shumejda. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord.

Your urgent response is needed with your details to enable proceed.

Yours faithfully.

Mr. Salim Zaid