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From: "Cedric Odion"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 04:50:26 -0700
Subject: INVESTMENT PROPOSAL
Hello,
My name is Mr. Cedric Odion, I am a banker by profession and I work
with one of the well known bank in Cotonou city in BENIN REPUBLIC and
currently holding the post of bill and exchange manager in the foreign
remittance department of my Bank.
I would like to apply through this medium for your co-operation to
secure an opportunity to invest and do joint business with your
company or as an individual in your country.
It has been years now that most of the greedy African Politicians
used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their
Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of
the shores of Africa were money that was supposed to have been used to
develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the
amounts before transfer to foreign accounts.
I acted as the Bank account Officer to most of the politicians and
when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy
act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files
/ system, no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for
them to control. They laundered about $14.1 billion USD during the
process. I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence
I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred
as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after
transfer.
As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert ($10.5m
USD) Ten Million Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars and was
logged in account belonging to no one in our bank.
It's been more than eight years now and most of the politicians are
no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas because their
tenure has ended. The ($10.5m USD) has been lying afloat in our bank,
as an officer of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this fund
and the bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to these funds
is. Indeed I will appreciate if you can receive this fund in your bank
account lets use it for joint investment or share it between us 30%
for you and 70% for me, there are practically no risks involved.
I am in the position to guide you towards this transaction and all I
need from you is to stand as the beneficiary of these funds, so that
upon your request for its immediate transfer your account the bank
will not hesitate to transfer to your designated bank account.
Meanwhile, on indication of your willingness to sincerely handle this
transaction as per my request I would furnish you with the full
detailed information and procedure I have mapped out for this
transaction.
If you accept this offer to work with me and find this proposal
suitable for you do reply back to me immediately lets discuss in
details.
Yours Faithfully,
Cedric Odion