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From: attorney frank <okohfrank2@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 08:00:24 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: this is more detials aboout the transaction
Dearest Partner ,
How are you today and how is work? Hope all is well.
This is to acknowledge receipt of your mail in response to my proposal. As requested in your mail and for the urgency needed, be clarified further as follows, I want you to know that my late client Mr. Steve Anderson dead with his family and before his death, he deposited US$15m dollars with the Guaranty trust bank of Nigeria which is presently in the bank waiting for me to present a next of kin of the late man who will inherit the fund as all the family deadin the accident and I could not locate any orderrelative to him. Note that it matter not if you are related or not as I have all the power and vital documents to cover you as the kin.
The bank gave me a notice to provide a next of kin whom they will transaction the fund to within some banking days and that was why I contacted you to stand as a next of kin to the late man and be in position to receive the left behind fund from the bank so what I need from you is your consent to present you to the bank as I will give the bank all the required documents and information that will cover you in the bank as the real next of kin to my late client Mr. Steve Anderson.
I want you to know that it does not matter if you are related to my late client or not but what matters is your cooperation as I have all the power to present any one to my chose to inherit the fund as the bank did not know any relative of my laye client.
But first of all, I would like to give you more information about myself. My full names are Barrister Okoh Frank Born on the 14th of February 1955. I am a legal practitioner, married with 3 children. My Office Address is 44,kofo Abayomi Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria. My Direct number is 234-8028360009.
We shall have Honesty and Trust as the first consideration in what ever shall go on between us. I shall need a total Assurance that you will not by any means Sit or Divert the Money as soon as it is confirmed in your custody, without releasing my share to me. Please take your time to study this letter and ask me questions if there are any.
In view of this, I need your assistance to receive this Money ($15,000,000.00) on my Behalf as a Next Of Kin to my late client (Mr. Steve Anderson) Note, there will be No Risk or Trace in Feature against You or Me because I cannot Risky my Life and my personality to a business that am not sure, Besides, every Documents regards to this Claim has to be Legal for easy Claim.
I want to present you as the Next of Kin, due to the fact that I cannot locate any of the Family like I stated in my Letter of Request, which all the family was involve in the Car accident, that is the reason I decide to contact you because I have tried and could not locate his relative and the bank has ask me to get a next of kin to my late clients left fund in there bank and the law / guideline governing the banking act and decree 00.02 of the country state that any fund which remain unclaimed after the period of four good years will go back into the federal treasury account as unclaimed bill , cause if the fund should exceed the next 3 weeks without no body applying for it , the fund will be transferred automatically into the National Treasury Account as unclaimed bill , This which I strictly repudiate as I have gone through deep and undue stress in the process of locating a bearer of the name to stand for claim as I am the personal attorney to deceased
Meanwhile, before I can proceed further to process Legal Documents to Present You as the Next Of Kin to the deceased, I will like you to send me the following information:
1) Your full names.
2) Your full contact address
3) Your telephone & Fax numbers
4) Your occupation/Age and sex.
On receipt of the above requested information, I shall file in an application of claim in your name to the bank as the real next of kin to enable the bank process the claim and pay to you.
Finally this transaction is total Risk Free, as long as absolute confidential is maintained, for this purpose you are advice to keep it Secret. Thanks for your anticipated co-operation, as I await your urgent Information, to enable me proceed. Further information you call me on my direct phone 234-8028360009.
With best regards,
Barrister Okoh Frank
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