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From: mavc uw <mavc_uw@yahoo.ca>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:03:10 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Your Attention Is Needed Please!
Dear Friend,
I am writing to you as a staff of Chartered Bank Plc Nigeria under the Affilete Bank, Natwest Bank London Following a discovery in our Current Account Department I to write to intimate you of an opportunity that will be of immense benefit to both of us. Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American was one of our numerous customers who unfortunately lost his life in an Alaska Airlines Flight 261 plane crash on January 31, 2000. He died in the plane incident along with
his wife and only daughter. You can read more about the crash on visiting the following sites: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/ and http://www.nativefederation.org/history/people/mThompson.html/ Before his death Mr. Thompson maintained a Current Account with our bank to the ton of $10.5 million Following this ugly incident, the bank has been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come forward and claim his money. Records available to us shows that his supposed next of kin being his only daughter died along with him in the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge of this fund. Since I and
two other officials of this bank are directly in control of this fund, we are looking for a reliable person to apply as next of kin or relation of the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. The banking law and guidelines stipulates that such money shall be declared unclaimed and paid into the government treasury if after five years there is no beneficiary. In the light of the forgoing, we honestly hereby request you to apply as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement between ourselves. We are also glad to inform you that we have finalized all necessary arrangements for the smooth release of this fund to whom-may-be-the beneficiary. Further
details will be discussed in our subsequent correspondence. If this is acceptable to you, we propose that 35% of this money will be for you as our foreign partner, while the balance will be for my colleagues and me. Once this fund has been transferred into your account we will agree on how to transfer our shares back to us based on the percentages indicated above. Please we expect you to be honest and trustworthy in this transaction. All correspondence should be sent to my alternative email address as follows e mail address for safety and confidentiality (frederickahmed@fastermail.com) While looking forward to hearing from you ASAP, please send me your telephone number so that I can call you for further discussions on the matter.
Best Regards,
Mavic Ahmed
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