From: Dr James Egbunike
To: Gilbert Murray
Subject: REPLY QUICK
Sent: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 05:12:28 +0300 (MSK)
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Attn: Dear Friend,
STRICTLY AND PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
I am Dr James Egbunike, the Manager of Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the African International Bank (AIB) of Nigeria PLC.
I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $24,200,000.00 (twenty-four million, two hundred thousand United States dollars only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers, who died along with his entire family of a wife and two children in November 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and put claims for his money as the heir, because we cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next of kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the said fund.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained an account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be returned to the bank’s treasury as an unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus: 20% for you as our foreign partner, 75% for us, the officials in my department, and 5% for the settlement of all local and foreign expenses incurred by us and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 75% we intend to invest in estate and import agricultural machineries into my country as a way of recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction, we require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return email, and to enclose your private contact telephone number and fax number to enable us to file a letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals before the transfer can be made.
Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of its nature.
I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Yours faithfully,
Dr James Egbunike
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