FROM THE DESK OF DR. MOHAMMED AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER, BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of Auditing and Accounting department of BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5m dollars (TWENTY MILION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.For more information about the crash you can visit this site:( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application form that i will send to you when i hear from you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately. DR. MOHAMMED Yours Faithfully, MANAGER AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT BANK OF AFRICA.
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Mr. Albert Dupree British Arab Commercial Bank Ltd. 8-10 Mansion House Place London EC4N 8BJ UK CONFIDENTIAL PHONE: +44-7040-113-138 PRIVATE EMAIL: [email protected] Dear friend, This is a proposal in context but actually an appeal soliciting for your unreserved assistance in consummating an urgent transaction requiring maximum confidence. Though this approach appears desperate, I can assure you that whatever questions you would need to ask or any other thing you will need to know regarding this proposal will be adequately answered to give you a clearer understanding of it, so as to arrive at a successful conclusion. My name is Mr. Albert Dupree, Regional Head of Securities, British Arab Commercial Bank Ltd, London England. On January 17, 1999, a foreign consultant/contractor with the Asea Brown and Boveri Ltd, Mr. Abdou Elzanaty ,made a numbered time (fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at US$41,500,000.00, (Forty-five Million, Five Hundred thousand United States Dollars only) in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his contract employers, Asea Brown and Boveri (the energy giant), that Mr. Abdou Elzanaty died from a plane crash. You can verify this using the following links: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/01/egyptair.03/ On further investigation, I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless as his wife also suffered the same fate by dying in the same plane crash. I therefore made further investigation and discovered that Mr. Abdou Elzanaty did not declare any next of kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paperwork in our Bank. Due to the funds being temporarily unclaimable, the funds have being moved out of our bank ( as sundry funds )to an offshore Deposit Company here in Amsterdam Holland. From past experiences, I know that no one will ever come forward to claim the deceased funds. According to Bristish laws, at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the funds will be Unclaimable and revert to the ownership of the British Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. In order to avert this negative development, I in conjunction with a colleague (the Chief Operating Officer in the bank) now seek your permission to allow my attorney do a CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP/REASSIGNMENT OF CREDIT of stated funds from the "deceased" to your name, so that the funds would be released to you as the new owner/next of kin of the deceased (on behalf of me and my colleague). We are writing you because, as public servants representing the investment of my country's government in the Bank, we cannot operate a foreign account or have an account that is more than 20,000:00 Pounds. Moreover we can not stand as next of kin to the deceased because this will create a conflict of interest being his bankers. Consequently, you will be presented as the NEXT OF KIN to the deceased so you can be able to claim the funds, after all necessary paperwork has being effected. For us to commence, I will like you to provide the following information immediately; 1. Full names 2. Contact address 3. Telephone and fax numbers Once I receive these information, I will prepare the necessary documents which will put you in place as the new owner of the funds by virtue of inheritance. The money will then be released to your custody by the Deposit Company, for us to share in the ratio of 75% for us and 25% for you. There is no risk at all as all the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the solicitor and this will guarantees the successful execution of this transaction. If you are interested, please reply via my email address or call my telephone(both above). Upon your response, I shall then provide you with more details, and further explanation that will help you understand the transaction. FOR THE SAKE OF CONFIDENTIALITY,SECURITY AND TIMELY COMMUNICATION RESPOND TO THIS PROPOSAL,USE MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDRESS:[email protected] AND CONFIDENTIAL PHONE NUMBER:+44- 7040-113-138. No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive, please we imploy you to observe utmost confidentiality and rest assured that this transaction would be most profitable for both of us because we shall require your assistance to invest our share in your country (Real estate and any other ideas you may have), this is why your urgent action and response is of great essence which will enable us conclude this transaction in a timely and professional manner. I await your swift response hoping you accept my proposal, as time is of equal essence in this project as well as is confidentiality. Thank you and have a nice day. Respectfully yours, Dr. Albert Dupree.
