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From: mathew collins <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 17:20:26 +0000
Subject: ATTNTION; SIR/MADAM
ATTNTION; SIR/MADAM
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreignremittance Department
of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF COTE D IVOIRE ABIDJAN, I am writing following the
information about you through International web directory and wish you are
capabile and reliable to champion this business opportunity.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15.5 m USD.,(Fifteen
million,five hundred thousandUS dollars). in an alloted vault in the bank
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in may 2013 in a plane crash in kenya.
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
somebod yapplies for it as nextof kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and aws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next-of-kin or relation died along side with him
atthe plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and otherofficials in our
institution now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release
the safe-boxcontaining money to you as the next-of-kin or relationto the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement, since nobody is coming for
it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury
unclaimed.
The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if such money/deposit
remained unclamed after four years,the money/deposit will be transfered
into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in thisbusiness is occasioned by
the act that the customer was a foreigner and a IVOIRE can not stand as
next-of-kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for
you asforeign partner, in respect to the provision of aforeign account, 10
% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would
be for meand my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your
country for disbursement accoding to the percentagesindicated. Therefore to
enable the immediate transferof this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relation or next-of-kin of the deceased.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by faxor e-mail the text of
the application you willtran scribe as your order and send to the bank. I
will not fail to bring to your notice that this transactionis hitch free
and that you should not entertain anyatom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.
Yours faithfully,
DR. Mathew Collins