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From: Barrister Yengeni Tony <tony.yegeni@gmail.com>
Subject: LATE MR. EDWARD PEARSON'S ESTATE CLAIM
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:45 +0700 (05:29 EST)
LATE MR. EDWARD PEARSON'S ESTATE CLAIM
Strictly Confidential
Dear friend,
A certain Mr. Edward Pearson was a first generation immigrant to Niger Delta Region.
Edward
Pearson became very successful here in Niger Delta, as a big time
contractor to the successive Oil Drilling companies in Niger Delta and
he has banked with a certain commercial bank here in Niger Delta, for
decades.
Today I am the Head of the Treasury Department of
this same bank, where Edward has been banking with. I have worked with
this same bank, which is a commercial bank located here in Niger Delta,
for the last 15years and have been Edward's account manager in this
bank for the last 10 years. My name is Barrister Tony Yengeni, and I am
a citizen of Nigeria Painfully and unfortunately too, Mr. Edward
Pearson, his wife Jennifer and only son Jeff, all died in Thailand,
where they were on holiday, on 26th December 2004, as victims of the
unfortunate Indian ocean Tsunami of that year. Before his death, Edward
had a substantial amount of money left in his account with our bank and
unfortunately he died without a will, or survivor. As a result of these
two facts, his account has remained inactive ever since and nobody has
come forward to ask for this money, whether as either his next of kin,
or the administrator of his estate, or anything. As things stand now,
if nobody asks for this money very soon, then my bank will legally
appropriate to itself the whole money in this account, as a fund, whose
owner has been untraceable.
Therefore, my purpose of writing
you this letter, in your position and capacity as a foreigner and a
non-resident, and non-citizen of Nigeria, is to request for your
cooperation and collaboration with me, for you and I to demand for and
indeed claim the money in this his bank account with my bank to
ourselves, instead of allowing the bank to do same. Our moral
justification for doing so is that if we fail to do so, the bank will
certainly claim the money, as it's own. However, the best thing would
have been to pay the money to any living relation of the deceased
customer, to whom it would rightly have belonged to, but there is
absolutely no such known existing relation, { haven searched for same
in vain, since January 2005}; thus leaving the money now at the mercy
of whoever is able to claim it first, between you and I on one hand and
the bank on the other hand, as we are the only two parties that know
about anything surrounding the said fund. Friend, your
cooperation/collaboration with me in this venture is inevitable to it's
success, because this money can only be released to a claimant that is
not a Nigerian citizen and one that is domiciled outside Nigeria. No
doubt, you fit the criteria perfectly well. My idea here is that our
two sides will share this amount with the accrued interests, in agreed
ratios, after it is paid to you as the supposed authentic next-of-kin
to the Edward, because we need each other to make this happen. We may
also choose to reinvest the money too and own such investments jointly
upon agreed ratios too.
Please take notice and get the
understanding that I never wrote, implied, or insinuated that the late
Edward was your dead relation, or related to you in any other way, or
even known to you, as I have no such evidence, or any reason to suggest
that. I am simply, confidently telling you that the combination of the
fact that your are a foreigner domiciled outside the Republic of
Nigeria and my strategic position in the subject bank, are more than
sufficient for me to cause the above money that he left in his account
since 2004, to be legitimately, genuinely and lawfully paid in your
favour, as if you were indeed related to him actually; the fact that
you are not, notwithstanding. I am also guaranteeing that this project
will be done according to internationally accepted standards of
practice and morals only. Essentially I need you to organize the
reception and custody of the money in any country outside Nigeria,
which may, or may not be your home country, or country of your normal
domicile. My own duty is to arrange and cause our bank to effect, the
hitch-free movement of the funds from the bank here to such your chosen
destination and doing so in the most legitimate, lawful and ethically
acceptable way.
To do this effectively, I have also gotten the
cooperation of the Director in charge of the International banking Dept
of this our bank, whom I have co-opted in this project and who is
already working with me here on the project now. What is even more
interesting about this project is that you are not required to put up,
or pay even a dime of your own money in the project. Therefore, what
else can you ask for, or could one wish for, better than this? There is
currently $12,150,002.00, (Twelve million, one hundred and fifty
thousand, two US Dollars) in the said account , plus the compounded
interests that have accrued to it since January 2005, all of which we
will move to your instructed bank, or chosen destination outside
Africa, by Swift transfer, or cashier's cheques. This US$12,150,002.00
plus interests, is the amount I am telling you that we have to move
over to you and share, or re-invest and own upon mutually agreed
ratios, the above amount will be to our mutual benefits and be ours
legitimately too.
Out of this amount, I am proposing for your
consideration, that you will be entitled to one third of the
$12,150,002.00, (Twelve million, one hundred and fifty thousand, two US
Dollars), which is US$4,050,000? Four million, fifty thousand Dollars,
{Plus1/3 of all interests that have accrued on this sum from January
2005 to date}, as your commission/share, on the completion of the
project. Again, in order not to run foul of the Patriot Act, or any
other such laws that may be in force anywhere, we can as well move this
fund in many instalments of smaller bits of say $2.0m, or less at a
time, if you want. However, appropriate documentations and clearance
will accompany any sum being sent to you, to show the legitimacy and
legality of the payment.
Moreover everything about this
transaction will be done in a most civilized and non-criminal way,
which must be according to internationally acceptable standards of
practice and morals. In addition there is no risk of failure, or legal,
or security problems, or prosecutions etc, for anybody in this
transaction both now and in the future. Therefore, need I say again
that you will indeed not regret your choice of doing this transaction
with me at all? I therefore very earnestly solicit your sincerest
cooperation in this project and I will be very glad to give you some
specifics as you may demand from me, as soon as you have confirmed your
interest in this proposal. Please give me your urgent reply in very
strict confidence, by email first and we will proceed from there.
Yours very Sincerely
Mr. Tony Yengeni.
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