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From: MR TAJUDEEN ADEOLA <okenwaccc@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: taj_adeola56@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:52:21 -0800 (PST)
Subject: How is work my dear friend
From: Mr Tajudeen Adeola
Date: 26/02/2007.
SUBJECT MATTER: UNCLAIMED DEPOSIT.
My Dear,
It is my pleasure to meet you through the International Business Link, and i am a staff of the United Bank for Africa Plc.I will give you my staff Identity Card in my next mail.However, i will advise you respond immediately after reading this letter.
Last two years, we lost one of our foreign customers a National of your country .Before his death, our late customer was an Automobile Engineer, and a business associate/partner to the West Africa Chamber of Commerce and Industry.Sources confirmed that he had held the contract of supplying Auto-Parts to West African Markets for close to 18 years.This our late customer came to Nigeria in the year 1995 when he attended the 14th International Trade Fair of the West Africa Chamber of Commerce/Industry held at Lagos Trade Fair Complex.During this time, he visited my bank to open an account. He opened a Domicilliary [Dollar] account, where he then advised his local customers in Nigeria and the rest of West African Countries to deposit all his money, since it was difficult transfering money to his foreign accounts individually.Since then, i have mornitored this account each year.At the end of every year,this our late customer would write to mybank to transfer some money to his
foreign account, and we did.
However, we got a shocking news from his local customers that he had died of heart attack November 29, 2005.I had tried to locate any distant relation of this our late customer. I have gone to yourcountry's embassy here to see if i could be able to reach any of his distant relation but all was unsuccessful.
Now, his account contains a credit balance of Twenty-Seven Million, Eight Hundred and Fourty Thousand Dollars[US Dollars] which is the total of the various deposits made into his dollar account by his business associates/local customers in West Africa till the year 2005. I am expecting you to respond to this message immediately as the next of kin to this our Late Customer so that this money will be tranfered into your account as the beneficiary.This account has no other beneficiary and my Bank does not know any other kin to this our late Customer.And my Bank is ready to approve this transfer to you only if you can provide correct information about this our late customer which i may help to provide for you by sending to you his photograph, company profile, and account details with my bank.I decided to contact you because this fund may be reverted into our Government's treasury as an unclaimed fund and it can not be approved for payment to any body here, except a
foreigner.This is due to the fact that the owner of this account (our late customer) is a foreigner, and my bank expects that the beneficiary next of kin should be a foreigner from your country too.
I advise that you try as much as possible to respond to this important message in order for us to lay claim on this inheritance fund from our Bank to avoid this fund being confiscated as an unclaimed fund by our Government.
With all due respect,i expect your prompt response to enable my Bank effect the
transfer of your inheritance fund.
Truly yours,
TAJUDEEN A. ADEOLA (CFR).
UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC (UBA).
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