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From: "Donald Whitewood"<[email protected]>
Reply: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 14:25:38 +0100
Subject: RE: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPONSE
Dear Sir/Ma,
The internet has been grossly abused by internet scam artist and miscreants whose intention is to extort money from foreigners for no justified reason. In as much as one should be careful, we should also not allow our negative thoughts to kill the positive potential in a realistic business. Please read my proposal carefully, it's 100% genuine and risk-free.
My name is Donald Whitewood, I am the Branch Manager of Lloyds Bank in london, United-Kingdom. I am writing this letter to ask for your support and co-operation to carry out this business opportunity in my department. After an annual audit Last 4months ago (February) in my branch, I discovered documents of a late client "Mr.Andreas Schranner",
A German business magnate who made a numbered fixed deposit with this branch valued at 22.8M (Twenty-Two Million and Eight Hundred Thousand Great Britain Pound Sterling), and I was lucky to have copies of the scan documents with me in my file record.
I discovered from his contract employers "The Petroleum Corporation" that "Mr.Andreas Schranner", died along with his entire family and other passengers on board, in the Air-France AF4590 Jet Liner plane crash, that occured on Monday the 31st of July, 2000. Please feel free to confirm it yourself via the website below;
According to the British Financial Law Act 2003, after the expiration of 14years, if no member of relative to the deceased apply for the claim, it will be confiscate and declared as state treasury.
Based on this, I am seeking for your support to stand-in as the Next of kin/ beneficiary of "Mr.Andreas Schranner", so that the bank can release his deposited funds 22.8M (Twenty-Two Million and Eight Hundred Thousand British Pound Sterling) to you, and then, we both can move it into
useful investments. I am ready to share with you 40%, and 55% will be for me, and then, 5% will be used to cover any expenses we may incur in the course of finalizing the transaction.
You will provide an offshore account where the funds will be transferred into. The reason why I am contacting you is because I cannot stand in the forefront to claim the funds alone because I am currently working with the bank.
I will like you to provide me with the following details below if you are interested:
(1) Your Full Name:
(2) Your Contact Address.
(3) Your Telephone / Fax Number.
(4) Your Occupation.
(5) Your Date of Birth.
Upon receipt of the above information, I will call you on telephone to give you more details on this, and then, I shall furnish you with the due process of concluding this transaction without any delay.
Kindly reply to my private E-mail: [email protected]
NOTE: Kindly discard this message if you are not interested. One Passionate appeal, I will make to you is not to discuss this matter with anybody. If you have any reason to reject this offer, please destroy this message as any Leakage of this information will be used against me at my work place, as the Branch Manager of Lloyds Bank here in London, United-Kingdom.
Thanks for your understanding and waiting to hear from you.
Best Regards,
Mr. Donald Whitewood
Branch Manager,
Lloyds Bank,
London, United-Kingdom.