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From: "h.shermanmr" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 01:44:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR.KATTAN AL AZMAL BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FROM THE DESK OF MR.KATTAN AL AZMAL BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
UNITED BANK OF AFRICA (UBA),
KUMROMA TUNDE MOTORS, REPUBLIC DU BENIN.
My Dear Friend,
How are you doing today? I will explain my self little to you before I
continue. I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA (UBA).I am writing to seek your interest
over a partnership business transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars (FIFTEEN
MILLIONS US DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died along with his entire family in November 2012 in a plane crash. Since
we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin 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 but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin
or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind
for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one other official in my
department have decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we donât want this
money to go into the Government treasury as unclaimed funds.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank's
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
citizen of our country cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 40 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect
to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 50 % would be for me and my colleague.
Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement of the fund according to
the percentages indicated in this proposal. Therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged, You must apply first to the bank as
relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank
account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the format of the
application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made by me and my colleague in the bank for the smooth
and effective transfer of the money into your designated bank account that you
provide.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately. Time is not a negligible factor in this
business because we have limited time at our disposal.
Yours faithfully
Mr.Howard Sherman
Bill and Exchange Manager,
(UBA) Email ([email protected])