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From: "Richard Williams\]" <williams4richard25@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:34:48 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Urgent & Confidential
THE DESK OF RICHARD WILLIAMS
DIRECTOR AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT
ECOBANK, LAGOS NIGERIA.
My Dear,
I am Mr. Richard Williams, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section of Eco bank lagos Nigeria in West Africa I have an urgent and very confidential business proposal for you.
An Oil consultant and contractor with the Chinese Solid minerals Corporation, Mr Alistair Holcombe made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$15 000,000.00 (fifteen Million Dollars) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally i discovered from his contract employers, the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Alistair Holcombe died in a plane crash along with his wife Mrs Novelle Holcombe in an EgyptAir Flight 990, in the 1999 air crash which i know you must have heard.
Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Alistair Holcombe did not declare anybody his next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank. This sum of US$15 000,000 is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Nigeria, at the expiration of 7(seven)years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Alistair Holcombe so that the fruits of this old man's labor will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials. Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the bonafide next of kin to the deceased, get the required approval and transfer this money to a foreign account has been put in place and directives and needed information will be relayed to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist me and also benefit your self to this great business opportunity.
In fact I could have done this deal alone but because of my position in this country as a civil servant(A Banker) I am not allowed to operate a foreign account and would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the time of transfer because I work in this bank.
This is the actual reason why it will require a second party or fellow who will forward claims as the next of kin and also present a foreign account where he will need the money to be re-transferred into on his request as it may be after due verification and clarification by the correspondent branch of the bank where the whole money will be remitted from to your own designation bank account. I will not fail to inform you that this transaction is 100% risk free. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, while 60% will be for me.
Please, you have been adviced to keep this transaction "top secret" as I'm still in service and intend to retire from service after I conclude this deal with you. I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you confirm the money in your account and ask me to come down to your country for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages indicated and further investment, either in your country or any country you advice me to invest in.
All other necessary information will be sent to you when I hear from you.
Awaiting your urgent reply via my confidential email
address or you can call me on my private line:
Thanks.
Mr. Richard Williams
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