Barrister Vernon Dennis of Howard Kennedy Solicitors for Capt. Hatem Roushdy

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From:     Barr. Veron Denis <howken5885@earthlink.net>
Reply-To:     Barr. Veron Denis <howken55@hotmail.com>
Subject:     CAN I TRUST YOU
Date:     Sat, 2 Aug 2008 08:51:24 -0700 (GMT-07:00) (11:51 EDT)

HOWARD KENNEDY SOLICITORS
19 Cavendish Square London W1A 2AW.
Fax: 44 (0) 870 13511 86
DX 4278 Oxford Circus North
http://www.howardkennedy.com


Attention:,

Howard Kennedy is a London-base law firm with 68 partners. The firm offers national and international clients a broad range of legal service including aviation, banking, company and commercial, employment, licensing, litigation, media and entertainment, private client, project and trade finance, property, property finance and tax.

Sir, I am making this contact to you in respect of late Capt. Hatem Roushdy long lasted cordial business relationship with my chambers before his death. I am contacting you, believing that it is time to handover and entrust to you, the late Capt. Hatem Roushdy assets including cash.

I am Barrister Vernon Dennis, the head of corporate recovery & reconstruction service, Howard Kennedy solicitors in London and an indigene of Australia, I have a client Capt. Hatem Roushdy, who lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 (View: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm).

All occupants on board unfortunately lost their lives. Since then I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to locate any member of his family in United States but of no avail, hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist me in repatriating the money left behind by my client before they got confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged.

Particularly, the bank of America where the deceased had an account valued at about US$18, 5 million has issued me a notice to provide the next-of-kin or have the account confiscated within the next twenty official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 1 year now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$18,5 million can be paid to you and then you and I can share the money; 50% to me and 50% to you.

I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any claim we may make, all I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me first by my secured and confidential email immediately you acknowledge the good receipt of this message.
Anticipating your prompt response.

Let me know when you contact the bank for the release of our fund.

Yours Sincerely,

Barr. Vernon Dennis

Howard Kennedy Solicitors
London.
http://www.howardkennedy.com

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