Re: PLEASE REPLY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
On May 13, 2009, at 6:22 AM, willmas eke wrote:
FROM MR.WILLIAMS EKE.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
UNION BANK PLC
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
I am highly delighted to be in contact with you and sorry for the embarrassment this mail might be to you as we have not met or known each other before.
Firstly,Let me introduce myself. My name is Mr. Williams Eke, I am the auditing and accounting officer of Union Bank Plc .I got your contact over the Internet in my search for the relatives of one of our numerous customers who died alongside with his family in an air crash. During the routine check in my branch, I discovered an abandoned sum of Twelve million Five hundred united states dollars,(USD$12.5m). in an account belonging to an expatriate customer Mr.Lynn Roy, a mining consultant/contractor with one of the leading oil company in Federal Republic of Nigera before his accidental death on Saturday 4Th May 2002 in Nigeria via the ill-fated EAS Airline crash.
Ever since then, valuable efforts have been made to get to his people but to no avail, as he had no known relatives and more so, he used his wife's name as his next of kin in his account opening forms. I have been expecting his relatives to come over to claim his money as it cannot be claimed unless somebody applies officially for it as his next of kin as indicated in our banking guide but no avail. Unfortunately, I discovered that his supposed next of kin (his wife and children) died with him over the plane crash incident.
You are being contacted because Since nobody showed up for his money and I don't want it to go back into Federal Republic Of Nigeria account as unclaimed bill when the next audit is conducted. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that such money if remain unclaimed, will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed effect. The request of a foreigner to act as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a citizen of Federal Republic Of Nigeria cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you. I will visit your country for the disbursement/investing of my share according to the percentages we shall agree upon after the successful transfer of the money to your account. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch-free and that there is absolutely no risk in it, having concluded the modalities for a smooth operation and my position in the bank guarantees its successful execution.
All I require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee of your sincerity and capability to enable us conclude this deal. Note however that the sensitive nature of this transaction demands that you have to keep it absolutely confidential. Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter if you do not appreciate this proposition.
Thank you very much for your time.
Trusting to hear from you immediately,
Best regards,
Mr.Williams Eke
My reply (from a throwaway email account):
Mr. Eke,
Thank you for contacting me. As you can imagine, Uncle Lynn's death was quite a shock to us all, and the fact that Aunt Edna and the twins, Seymour and Ophelia, also perished was especially saddening. But what a coincidence that during your search for someone to help you collect part of Uncle Lynn's estate for yourself, you would find his only living relative. This is good news, indeed. Now you don't have to worry about the money being transferred to the government as an unclaimed effect!
While I'm still heartbroken about the loss of my family, I will put the money to good use. As soon as the money is transferred to my account, I will start the Lynn Roy Foundation, which will dispense the money to deserving members of the mining and oil community. I am not ashamed to tell you that I am weeping with joy over the thought of helping those who need it most.
Please contact me at this email address, and we can begin the proceedings of transferring the funds to my account. While I would like to offer you a commission for working so hard to do the right thing, I fear it would be taken as an insult to your quite-evident integrity, so I'll just take the entire $12.5 million dollars. If you wish, I will make a token donation to the charity of your choice.
Thank you again,
Renfield Roy