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From: kevin leslie <leslie3170@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:18:33 +0200
Subject: THANKS
Absa Towers, 160 Main Street, Johannesburg,
2001 Postal address: PO Box 7735
From: Mr. Kevin Leslie,
TREAT AS URGENT/CONFIDENTIAL, PLEASE,
In our search for a trustworthy individual to work with us on a very important and confidential project, I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of immense benefit to both of us.
My name is Mr. Kevin Leslie Principal Executive Officer, Audit Department, Absa Bank of South Africa here in The South Africa. During the yearly preliminary in-house auditing of accounts, we discovered an account opened in 2000 and since 2006 has remained dormant which means that nobody has been operating it up till date. The total amount in this account is $10.8Million United State Dollars less accrued interest.
Working together with the Audit Manager Mrs. Joyce Barnes, we decided to investigate this account for more information. We discovered that the owner of this account belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Andreas Schranner a German Property Consultant and Importer of Used Cars, who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash AF4590 plane crash in July 2000 including his wife and only daughter. You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site which I got during my investigation;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin or relatives to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately I learnt 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 behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and Mrs. Mrs. Joyce Barnes in this department now decided to make business with you and release the money to you as the next of kin or beneficiary of the funds for safety keeping and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go back into Government treasury as unclaimed bill or get into the hands of some corrupt government officials.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that such money remained after five or Six years the money will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed funds.
Presently, we are the only two people in our organization with access to this information and we have decided to keep it that way and claim the money for ourselves using a third party who will take the place of the deceased (next of kin). We will supply the necessary information on the deceased and ensure that the claim application is giving immediate approval. Documents like the death certificate will be arranged and forwarded to you for onward submission to the bank.
The project is risk-free as we will use contacts that hold strategic positions in the bank to effect a successful completion of the project and also ensure that all traces of our mutual involvement are completely wiped off. These presents no problem as all documented evidence will be directly under their supervision.
We have earmarked a commission of 20% of the total amount for you. The remaining 80% you will help us invest in a profitable stocks and shares in your country. We would like to get your decision to this proposal as soon as possible. On receipt of your decision, we will fax or email you explicit details of the already completed groundwork on this project.
You can contact us at anytime on the e mail; above or below.
(kevin2007@pnetmail.co.za or joycebarnes2006@yahoo.co.uk)
Best Regards,
Mr. Kevin Leslie / Mrs. Joyce Barnes,
+27 73 995 6682
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