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From: Mamadou Traore <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 13:47:35 +0100
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Partner,
I am Mr. Mamadou Traore, the head of the accounting department with
the Bank of Africa (B.O.A) in Burkina Faso.
I know that you will receive this email with a sense of surprise but
you don’t have to worry about anything.
I have decided to contact you for a business transaction that will be
very beneficial to both of us once completed.
During our financial control and auditing, I discovered a huge amount
of money and fifty kilograms of Gold bars, in a private safe of one of
our late client, without claim.
This money belongs to a citizen of your country who died in 2003 in a
car accident here in Burkina Faso without naming any beneficiary to
this money and Gold deposited in our bank.
These funds are in his account with us without any one from his family
or his partners coming for it till now.
I and the director general of our bank have kept this information
secret to ourselves so that we can put in place a plan that can be
profitable to you and us.
This fund amounts to the total sum of seven million five hundred
thousand U.S. dollars ($ 7,500,000), with 50kgs of Gold bars in the
safe.
I got your contact on the internet and your email profile impressed
me, so I hope that you would be able to handle this transaction
without any problems.
We have already made solid arrangements to allow you stand as the next
of kin and the legal beneficiary, to claim these fund and the gold, as
a close relative or business partner of the deceased and to obtain the
required approval from our central bank in your favor, to transfer the
money into any given bank account details of your choice out of our
country, as the legitimate beneficiary.
I will pass on to you all the necessary information that you will need
for this claim, as soon as you have expressed your interest in doing
this business with us and to personally benefit from this great
opportunity.
I work in this bank, that is the real reason why my bank director and
I contacted you as an associate so that you can send a claim as a
close relative or business partner of the deceased for this funds to
be transferred to you without any traces coming back to us.
Upon the conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 40%
of the total amount as satisfaction and the remaining 60% will be for
the director general and I.
I will monitor the whole situation here at the bank until you confirm
that the money has been received in your account and you ask me to
join you in your country for the sharing of the total amount according
to the percentages indicated above.
I also want you to look for a serious buyer of the Gold and you should
find out how much we can sell the Gold in your country.
Please inform me as soon as possible of your wish to do this business
with us on the basis of trust.
For the success of this operation, you should keep it strictly
confidential what I have just confided in you. Only this condition can
allow us to achieve total success.
I am waiting for your urgent response.
My distinguished greetings.
Mr. MAMADOU TRAORE.
Phone. (226) 55692873.