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From: "Mr, Joan Gates7" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:11:08 -0400
Subject: Dear Beneficiary
Dear friend, Greeting to you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Let
me first of all inform you, I got your email address from a mail
Directory and decided to mail you for a permission to go ahead. I am
Mrs.Joan Gates United Kingdom, married to Dr. James R. Gates who
worked with Texaco Oil Company in Thailand before he died in a ghastly
motor accident on his way to a Board meeting. My Husband and me were
married but without any children. Since his death I decided not to
re-marry and presently I am 69 Years old. When my late husband was
Alive he deposited the sum of $16.5M. (Sixteen Million Five Hundred
Thousand U.S. Dollars) with a Bank. Presently this money is still with
the Bank and the management just Wrote me as the beneficiary to come
forward to receive the money or rather Issue a letter of authority to
somebody to receive it on my behalf. I am presently in a hospital
where I have been undergoing treatment Cancer of the lungs. I have
since lost my ability to talk and my doctors have told me that I have
only a few months to live so I think the best thing to do is to use
the money for charity purposes. I want a person who is trustworthy
that I will make the beneficiary of my late Husband's Fund deposited
with the bank so that the person can get the money and utilize 70% of
this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around the world.
At the moment I cannot take any telephone calls right now due to the
fact that my relatives (They had squandered the funds I gave them for
this purpose before are around me I have been helping orphans
orphanage/motherless homes. I have also donated some money for
humanitarian needs in Sudan , South Africa , Brazil , Spain , Austria
,Germany and some Asian countries. I have been touched to the good
work of humanity through you, rather than allow my relatives to use my
husband's hard earned funds inappropriately.I know i have never met
you but my mind tells me to do this, and I hope you act sincerely.