Mr Silas Akakpo, Continental Bank of Togo

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From:     Mr Silas Akakpo <silas_akakpo2006@sify.com>
Subject:    Urgent Response Please!
Date:    Sat, 05 Jul 2008 18:46:18 +0500 (IST) (09:46 EDT)

Dear Friend,

This is an official legal notice for an unclaimed fund
left by one of this companies' deceased clients ( name witheld) , who
died in a plane crash here in Togo on the 25th December 2003.

I am
the director in charge of auditing and accounting unit of Continental
Bank of Togo. I discovered the sum of $17.5 Million left in the deceased
account and the fund has been lying in as a suspense account,since no
one has come up for claim.

I hereby solicit for your immediate
response and positive committed efforts to facilitate for the claim of
this fund as the next of kin to the deceased.

Upon your positive
response to this covenant, I will make all necessary information known
to you, as I attached here the website of the incident,

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html.

Kindly get in touch with me through my email address or you call me on
my phone number stated below for more guidelines to the repatriation of
this fund.

Yours Sincerely
Mr Silas Akakpo.
+228-081.80.90.

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