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From: "Robertson Kenneth"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:18:35 -0800
Subject: IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM KENNETH ROBERSON.. REPLY ASAP
Hello,
Compliments of the day to you and I hope you are keeping safe. By way
of introduction, I am Mr. Kenneth Robertson. I work with one of the
major banks here in South Africa. I would respectfully request that
you keep the contents of this mail confidential and respect the
integrity of the information you come by as a result of this mail. I
have a business proposal which I believe would be of interest to you.
It concerns a deceased client and an estate he left behind, without
naming a beneficiary to the funds left behind.
There is Fifty Eight Million Three Hundred and Seventy Thousand
United State Dollars ($58,370,000.00) deposited and I alone have the
deposit details and the bank will release the deposit to no one unless
I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this
deposit for as far as my Bank is concerned. The transaction with our
deceased customer ended when the bank could not locate the next of kin
as none was stated when he set up the secret account. I have carefully
moved the funds to the transfer department in a special account
pending when I will find a trusted person that will receive the funds
on my behalf overseas.
They are simply awaiting instructions to release the deposit to any
party that comes forward with the documents which I will provide for
you. This is the situation. This bank has spent great amounts of money
trying to track this man’s family; they have investigated for months
and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end.
My proposal; I am prepared to place you in a position to give
instruction for the release of the deposit to you as the closest
surviving relation since you are a foreigner like he was. Upon receipt
of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you in half.
That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them
release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40.
I want to invest my own share with your help in your country/company
if you assist me to the funds out to your account. I have never been a
business man and don’t know anything about it so I am depending on you
for assistance in investing the funds in any profitable business.
If its in your interest to proceed with the transaction, please
respond to this email account with your contact number and I will give
you a more detailed information of the source and origin of the estate
as well as the transaction proper. This is 100% risk free and all
legal documents to make the transaction completely legal will be
procured. I anticipate your cooperation while I also expect you to
keep the content of this letter very confidential.
Regards,
Mr. Kenneth Robertson