From: "Jean Phillipe" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <jeanphillpe2009@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 10:33:09 -0000
Subject: Mutual understanding


Hi,

I wish to solicit for your urgent assistance in what i believe will be of benefit to both of us. I am a Manager with a Bank in Cote D'
Ivoire. The issue I am presenting to you is a case of one of my late customer, an engineer who bears the same surname with you Engr.
Benjamin , he died leaving unclaimed funds with my bank. In the year 2003, my late customer made a fixed deposit here in my bank totalling
(Sixteen Million Dollars) which was due to be collected in 2008 after 5 years maturity with accrued dividends.

On my yearly appraisal of my customers at the turn of every year, I discovered that this fixed deposit remained overdue for retrieval. I
had put up series of mails and bank notifications to him which were sent back uncollected. It was a year ago that i discovered that he
passed on along with his wife and only child through 2004 Indian ocean Tsunami while resorting at Khao Lake in Thailand. Since learning of
his death, I have managed his account expecting any of his extended relatives to come forward to claim his money but all attempts to trace
his relatives over the years has been fruitless since he did not declare any of his relative's information in his banking records with
us. Added to this, professional ethics obligates us to act with extreme confidentiality when dealing with clients accounts of this
type. According to my country "Cote D' Ivoire" banking law, the money will be bequeathed to the government if it remains unclaimed by a
certain period which is almost near.

However, I don't belong to that school of thought which proposes that the fortunes of unlucky people be given to the government and I am
fully convinced that no one would turn up to execute the letter of administration to claim his funds before this short time. Hence, I
decided to contact you to come in as the next of kin/Business partner to my late customer so that the total of (Sixteen Million United
States Dollars) can then be transferred to your nominated bank account in your country within 7 working days after you must have filed in
your claims transfer application to the bank. I will prepare every operation that will assist you to claim the funds as the next of
kin/confidential business partner and everything will be left between you and me. The share would be 50/50 or better we can still map out 5%
for any expenses. Again, I feel that you may be apprehensive and consider this amount too big for you to defend. It does not matter, as
there are documents to back it up.

This transaction is risk free and as the most senior account manager with the bank, be rest assured that all documents to enable you get
this fund as the next of kin will be carefully worked out by me. Do not be bothered that you are not related in any way to my late
customer as I am in position to affix your name as the next of kin. Kindly send your reply enclosing your Full Names, Contact Address and
Phone Number to me for confidentiality, to enable me talk to you before I send you the certificate of deposit and other relevant
information relating to this fund transfer. I need not emphasize the confidentiality of this issue and I therefore appeal to you not
discuss this request with anybody, even if you decline to take full advantage of this great and urgent opportunity in my bank.

I look forward to your quick reply.

Sincerely,
Jean Philipe