WARNING: These are scams. They are Emails sent to a honeytrap address only ever used for this purpose. Do not reply to these people, they will try to con you into paying out money in return for nothing.
CAVEAT: Please note that some of these Emails may be impersonating a genuine company or person. We wish to make it clear that any such name mentioned within these Emails has no connection to the scam. For the sake of searching, we leave these messages untouched, but we will respond to any concerns left in our comments.
From: "Mrs Kathleen Casey" <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2019 16:31:03 +0100
Subject: Strictly Confidenial.
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 Mrs Kathleen Casey, a Manager at the United Bank for Africa, Benin Republic. 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 ship Captain Steve D. Lawrence ,an oil Merchant /contractor with the federal Government of Benin Republic ,until his death Five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the United Bank for Africa, Benin Republic, 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 arms and ammunition at a military war college here in Benin Republic.
Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the United Bank for Africa 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 Joseph Gabba, that an arrangement for the fund to be declared "UNCLAIMED " and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund or an orphanage Home.
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,US$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 40% of the total amount. 10% has been set aside for expenses, while the rest 50% would be for me and my colleagues for our involvement and we wish to invest our shares in real estate /oil business in your 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 and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, contact address and e-mail and national identification card, so that i can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction. Thank you in advance for your anticipated
co-operation.
Email me with this Email Address;[email protected]
Regards.
Mrs Kathleen Casey.