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From: Princess Essien <[email protected]>
Reply: Princess Essien <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:16:52 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: ASSIST MY FAMILY

Dear, Sir/Ma

I am Princess Mary Essien from Nigeria but residing in Nigeria, here in West Africa . It is my desire to contact you on honest and sincerity to assist me and my younger brother in transferring of our inheritance money of $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million United States Dollars), which we inherited from our late father King. Damaragbo Essien 11. we are motivated in contacting you and hope to gradually build trust, good relationship and confidence in you as we get to know you better.

Well, my father died earlier three months ago and left my mother I and my younger brother behind. He was a king, which our town citizens titled him long before his death. I was a Princess to him and I and my brother are the only people who can take Care of his wealth now because my mother is not literate enough to know my entire fathers wealth behind. He left up to $15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million United States Dollars) which he told me was deposited in a Security Company Oversea and I dont know how and what I will do to invest this money somewhere or therein abroad so my fathers kinsmen will not take over everything that belongs to my father and our family just because am a woman which they were planning to do without my present because I am a female as stated by our culture in the town, I must say I am happy as I saw your contact which I strongly believe that by the grace of God, you will help me retrieve, secure and invest this money in your country.

So please we want to know if you will be of assistance to us, but first of all we want to get to know you better. We would offer you 10% of the total money for your assistance, while 15% would be for every expense that might occur in the process of retrieving the money the security company for our investment. Please indicate your interest towards this offer to enable us tell you more on how the transaction would be done. I will furnish you with more details on how we can proceed. I am ready to pay 10% of the total amount to you if you help us in securing this money and another 10% interest of Annual Income to you for handling this business and our investment for us, which you will strongly have absolute control over. If you can handle this project sincerely and also willing to assist me in lifting this fund, kindly reach me and I will let you know the next step to take towards actualizing this transaction as quickly as possible. Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk free on your side.

Thanks, and may God bless you as you assist Us.

I look forward hearing from you soonest.
Yours sincerely,
Princess M. Essien