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From: JEAN PHILIPS <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 15:33:30 +0100
Subject: DEAR SIR
Attention Sir/Madam,
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well
at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the
urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of it's
swiftness and confidentiality.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am JEAN
PHILIPS, a Manager at the Unity Trust Bank Plc. I came to know of you
in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a
very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
A foreigner, Late Captain Steve D. Lawrence ,an oil Merchant
/contractor with the federal Government of Benin Republic Cotonou
,until his death five years ago in a ghastly Motor crash, banked with
us here at the Unity Trust Bank Plc, and had a closing balance of
US$20.5M (Twenty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars)
which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his
available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a
discredited trust fund for an orphanage.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Unity Trust Bank Plc to
get in touch with any of late Captain Steve D. Lawrence's next of kin
(he had no known wife and children) that the management under the
influence of our chairman, board of directors, Retired Major General
Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement for the fund to be declared
"UNCLAIMED " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for an
orphanage.
In order to avert this negative development , myself and some of my
trusted colleagues in the bank now seek for your permission to have
you stand as late Captain Steve D.Lawrence's next of kin so that the
fund,USD$20.5M, would be subsequently transferred and paid into your
bank account as the beneficiary next of kin. All documents and proves
to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are
assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 30% of
the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest
would be for me and my colleagues for our involvement and we wish to
invest our shares in real estate /oil business in country.
If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take advantage of
the trust we hope to bestow on you, then kindly get to me immediately
via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone,
and e-mail address, so that i can forward to you the relevant details
of this transaction. Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.
Regards.
Jean Philips.(Manager).