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From: "verify" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2018 04:11:23 +0800
Subject: Dear Friend
My Dear Friend,
Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and
I urge you to treat it serious. This letter must come to you as a big surprise, but I
believe it is only a day that people meet and become great friends and business
partners. Please I want you to read this letter very carefully and I must apologize for
barging this message into your mail box without any formal introduction due to the
urgency and confidentiality of this business and I know that this message will come to
you as a surprise. Please this is not a joke and I will not like you to joke with it ok,
with due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with
you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. My name is Mr. Kamalesh
Ashu, from Burkina Faso, West Africa. I work in United Bank for Africa (UBA) as telex
manager, please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another
person and let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below
because it is top secret.
I am about to retire from active Banking service to start a new life but I am skeptical
to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that everything will
be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been
10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money
overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they
transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to
have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the
amounts before transferring to foreign accounts, so I also used the opportunity to
divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much
was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer. I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered
that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their
banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too
much for them to control. They laundered over $5billion Dollars during the process.
Before I send this message to you, I have already diverted ($10.5million Dollars) to an
escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the
beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds. It
is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to
transfer funds overseas. The ($10.5million Dollars) has been laying waste in our bank
and I dont want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign
account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver (a foreigner). The money will
be shared 60% for me and 40% for you. There is no one coming to ask you about the funds
because I secured everything. I only want you to assist me by providing a reliable bank
account where the funds can be transferred.
You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to handle the
transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds, do let me know
immediately to enable me give you a detailed information on what to do. For me, I have
not stolen the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did
not face any problems. This is my chance to grab my own life opportunity but you must
keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows
about my plans. Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this
project, I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your confirmation and
acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to
me I am looking forward to hear from you immediately for further information.
Thanks with my best regards.
Mr. Kamalesh Ashu
Telex Manager
United Bank for Africa (UBA)
Burkina Faso