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From: "PRINCE FAYAD H. BOLKIAH" <princeh_fayad@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: susanafr2000@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 17:47:06 -0700
Subject: YOUR URGENT ASSITANCE IS NEEDED
Dear Respected One,
I need you to read this email message carefully because it is very imperative. I am contacting you for an Urgent Business Transaction and further explicit assitance in recovering the funds left by me.I am PRINCE FAYAD H.BOLKIAH, the eldest son of PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH who was the former Finance Minister of Brunei. Brunei Darussalam is a small country located in the northwest of the island of Borneo and governed by His Majesty SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH MU'IZZADDIN WADDAULAH.
I will save your time by not amplifying my extended Royal Family history which has already been disseminated by the international media during the controversial dispute that erupted between my father and his stepbrother, the sultan of Brunei SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH. As you may know from the international media, the Sultan had accused my father of financial mismanagement and impropriety of US$14.8 Billion.
This was as a result of the Asian financial crisis which made my father company Amedeo development Corporation(ADC) and government owned Brunei Investment Agency(BIA) to be declared bankrupt during his tenure in office. PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH was relieved of his post as Finance Minister of Brunei and was stripped of his chairmanship post as head of the nation's international investment arm, the Brunei Investment Agency in February 1998. The Agency controls 13 companies & Brunei's overseas assets.
In July 1998, SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH barred trading by Amedeo Development Corporation when the world's biggest corporate debt of US$14.8 Billion came to light. In September 1998, the Sultan ordered an investigation of the BIA by accountants KPMG after the Brunei government alleged that"large sums of money" had been misappropriated to companies controlled by PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH.
The Sultan then asked the Bank of England to help track down an alleged 28 Billion British Pounds of state and family funds said to be "missing" On the 02/10/1998 PRINCE JEFRI BOLKIAH flew from London in a private jet and was going to settle matters directly with SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH.
PRINCE JEFRI drove straight to his sea side palace at Jerudong, about 10 miles south of the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan. He was due to meet with officials of the Amedeo Development Corporation and visit the sultan. After series of meetings relations between the Royals appeared to deteriorate quickly. However,my father was arrested, his Bank Accounts and private properties including a crude oil export refinery & three large oil wells which were later confiscated by the sultanate.
Furthermore, during this unfortunate period i was advised to evacuate my immediate family outside the sultanate to avoid further prosecution from the sultan and his security operatives. Before I could do that I was placed under house arrest by SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH. You can visit the websites below for a better understanding of the situation:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/670959.stm
<http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/magazine/2000/0310/nat.brunei.jefri.html>
I have a Palm V hand-held computer from which I am sending you this mail. Before my arrest, I went ahead to dispatch the sum of US$1 Billion in cash under special arrangement into the custody of different Offshore Banks and Private security and Trustee companies for safe keeping abroad. The money where split and kept in the following countries in this proportion: US$500 Million is indifferent offshore Bank accounts while the rest are with Private Deposit & Trustee companies with:- US$50 Million is in England, US$100 Million is in Spain,US$100 Million is in Arabia,
US$80 Million is in United Arab Emirate and the balance US$170 Millions was moved to Malaysia through a trunk box and was deposited in a private security company.I am unable to reach my friends & associates whom would have provided all the much needed moral and financial assistance i require to release the funds because my private/personal diary was seized by my uncle SHEIK HAJI HASSBOLKIAH who also happens to be the Sultan of Brunei.
My proposal is this,I want you to move down to malaysia,where my younger sister is residing now.I seek for your assitance in getting out the funds with her from the security company in Malaysia where the sum of US$170 Million is deposited.I have also informed her where she will get all the necessary documents of the funds.With your performance and attitude you played in this transaction,i will also provide the informations details and documents of unstated funds in the various countries.This message is sent to you through the help of a warder in the prison where i'm detained now for further prosecution.So i may not have the opportunity to write again.I require from you to write to my younger sister through her email (susanafr2000@yahoo.com <mailto:susanafr2000@yahoo.com>) and place your consent in assiting her in getting the funds left by me.She will provide you all the necessary informations and steps in getting out the funds from the security company.Perhaps she is
only 25 years old and not authorised to have such funds in her custody as stated by malaysian law.I have as well informed her that i will provide a nice person who will assit her in getting out the funds.Thereby your message to her will not be a strange one.I will provide any other information that may arise (if any) in getting out these funds.
Hence, I seek your good will & assistance to receive and invest these funds into profitable investment in your country to facilitate future survival for my family abroad. I will compensate adequately for your strong cooperation.I am counting on your absolute confidentiality and transparency while looking forward to your prompt reply towards a swift conclusion of this business transaction. You can include your direct Mobile phone number. Thanks for your patience, reading through this volominious correspondance.
Get back to my younger sister through her email.(susanafr2000@yahoo.com <mailto:susanafr2000@yahoo.com>)
Wassalam & Best Regards,
PRINCE FAYAD H. BOLKIAH
BRUNEI DARUSSALAM
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