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From: Tony Elumelu <[email protected]>
Dear,
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:44:57 -0700
Subject: Awaiting your response.
Greetings to your personality and much sincerity of this
purpose.Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this
letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it seriously. 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. I
must apologize for barging this message into your mailbox 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.Tony Elumelu, from Burkina Faso, West Africa. I
work in Société Générale Burkina Faso (SG;BF) 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 it 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 don’t 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 to give
you 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 of handling
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
hearing from you immediately for further information.
Thanks.
Mr.Tony Elumelu,