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From: Jonas Benoit <[email protected]>Hello
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 20:04:32 +0000
Subject: JNB
Peace be to your home and your family
I wish to inform you that it was not by mistake that I contacted you in
this transaction because I was left with no other option than this.
I think you’re a respected, considering the fact that I got your email
address from internet, database of people search the Internet during my
research for a discrete foreign partner who can help me to do in the event
of its success.
I am Mr. Jonas Benoit, a banker by profession, In my previous email, I
was referring to my deceased client’s fund with his bank of which I have
received several messages from the bank asking me to present a closest
relative of my client for the claiming of the fund abandoned in the bank
totaling to the value of US$3,500,000.00 (Three Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars Only) from Account N°: 7022470231
There’s no doubt that the bank will sit on the money if I don’t locate any
of his family members or close associates so after giving thoughts about
this, I decided to utilize this opportunity by bringing you in as the
relative or associate to enable them release the funds to you under the
probate rule and you received the money, you and I will share it
conventionally. Hence, my reason for contacting you with this urgent
message.
You must understand that in the banking industry, chances or opportunities
like this are common but not heard. People put their monies in banks and
some of these accounts are either coded or confidentially operated,
therefore, when such people die what do you think that happens to these
monies when nobody comes for their claims? Well, this is one of the
numerous avenues good “free” monies are made within and amongst the bankers.
Please I want you to observe my statements carefully; this fund is real and
is lying in the bank as I am talking to you right now, and with my position
as the Senior Accountant Auditor; I will do all within my powers to get
this fund approved in your name as the inheritor/beneficiary of the fund.
The truth is that I physically do not know you before but I am aware that a
transaction of this nature and volume of the fund to be a success requires
trust, confidence.
This is risk-free and legitimate so, we’ll not have any legal trouble
executing this transaction. At your response, I will provide more details
and procedures of the transaction.
For this success of this business, I agree to offer you 50% and 50% will be
for me. Please, note that I put so many things into consideration before
agreeing on his terms and I hope that you will appreciate it Please, If
this business proposition offends your moral and ethical values, do accept
my sincere apology. 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.
Sincerely,
Mr. Jonas Benoit