From: Dr Mark Ardo <markard-dr890@yahoo.pl>
Reply-To: cdsoffice972@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 00:55:59 +0900 (JST)
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR YOU

Good Day Dear,

I am Dr Mark Ardo, a Business and Investment Consultant who was also a friend to an Independent Foreign Contractor from your Country that died in 2008 with the same Surname as yours. The purpose of this email is to seek your assistance and cooperation to repatriate the money that he left behind in a Bank here in Benin before it will be declared abandoned and confiscated for lack of next of Kin.

I came to know the late Engineer, while he was working at a completion stage of a Gas Pipelines Project. He came to my Office for my services, precisely for technical advice bordering on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and thereafter we became almost as close as best of friends. He was interested in Agricultural Sector, and wanted to invest in Cotton farming and processing here in my Country. So when he was paid his Contract Sum, and while we were negotiating with the National Cotton Board of Benin, he deposited $8.790M USD in a Bank, because he was also going to acquire some facility through the National Cotton Board. He also negotiated for a franchise to be the Sole exporter of Cotton from Benin.

While all the arrangements were at the final stage, we traveled to Togo to recoup some other outstanding funds owed to him by the Togolese Phosphates Mining Company, while there in Togo, he developed a heart condition and died of what appeared to be heart attack.

Years after the term of Deposit elapsed, I began to get notifications from the Bank because in the manifest and all the documentation that he filed with the Company my address was the one he used as his forwarding address. Then after several notifications, I visited the Bank early this year and met the Manager, who then said that since the Deposit term had long elapsed, that the depositor should come and collect the Safe Deposit Box or extend the contract. I told him that he died, and he said that I should contact the next of kin. Then recently, I was warned of a possible Forfeiture of this funds because of long time of inactivity and lack of next of kin. In order not allow this funds to be declared abandoned, I quickly met a lawyer. It is with the help of this Attorney, that I have been processing for the release of the funds myself, because I was able to get the Funds Deposit Certificate and Contract of Agreement with the Bank through the office of Chef De Burea des Entreprises Publiques. But at the very final stage of the retrieval process, the Bank refused to release the Funds, insisting that it can only release the funds to someone with the same Surname and Country as the deceased, and the Attorney says they are right. This is why I am contacting you today my friend, to stand in as the next of Kin to the deceased contractor. At my last meeting with the Bank Manager, he announced to me that Transfer Department have credited the Funds $8,790,000.00, into ATM Visa card.

Now, can you partner with me to receive this funds(ATM Card) on our behalf, so that this money will be split between us? If you agree to assist me, then reply as soon as possible so that we shall discuss other details, including what will be due to each other.

If you accept to help me, then reply with the following:

1. Your Full Names:
2. Contact Address:
3. Direct Telephone Number:
4. Fax Number:
5. Occupation:
6. Age:
7. Marital Status:

Best Regards

Dr Mark Ardo Telephone contact: +229 61348117.