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From: "Dr. Patrick Williams" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 13:06:31 +0100
Subject: Greeting to you my dear.
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Greeting to you my dear.
I wish to intimate you with a request that would be of immense benefit to both of us.My name is Dr.Patrick Williams bill and exchange of the foreign remittance department of one of the leading bank in Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end of the transaction. I got your email contact from your countrys Business Directory and decided to contact you regarding a business proposal.
Please I must use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence to keep this matter extraordinary confidential, whatever your decision, while I await your prompt response.
During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came across a huge sum of $17.6m belongs to a deceased customer Mr. Lou Baotang, a Chinese who was one of the victim of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370) which crashed in the south of the Indian Ocean on March 8, 2014 on the way from Kuala Lumpur International Airport to Beijing Capital International Airport killing all on board. Mr. Lou Baotang is number 92 on the manifest of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370/MAS370.
Since his untimely death, the bank has been waiting for the next of kin to come for the claim of his funds valued at $17.6m, having gone through a methodical search for his next of kin, which i personally have failed in the search for his relatives.
I seek your consent to present you to the bank as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$17.6m can be paid to you. Then we can share the amount on a mutually agreed-upon percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim as the next-of-kin will be provided. All I require from you is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction through.
This business will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from all breach of the law. If this business proposition offends your moral values, do accept my apology. On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40% of the total sum as gratification, 1% will be set aside to take care of expenses that may arise during the time of transfer, while 59% will be for me and my partner.
Kindly treat this transaction with absolute confidentiality and sincerity.
I wait to hear from you for further directives while stating your wish in this deal to my direct email thus: ([email protected]).
Yours Faithfully.
Dr. Patrick Williams
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