From: Mr. Wilfred Okpara ECO Bank Ltd Marina Lagos - Nigeria Tel: 234 1 7767923 E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 18 Nov. 2003
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL It is my humble pleasure to write this letter, irrespective of the fact that you do not know me. However, my colleagues and I came to know of you in our private search for a reliable and trustworthy person that can handle a confidential business transaction for us, though we know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but we am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. A foreigner, late Nicholas Owen, a civil engineer/contractor with the federal government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the ECO BANK PLC, Lagos. He had a closing balance of usd$25m (twenty five million united states dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent efforts made by the eco bank to get in touch with any of late Nicholas Owen's next of kin has been unsuccessful. The management under the influence of our chairman and board of directors are making arrangement for the fund to be declared "unclaimed” "and then be subsequently donated to the trust fund for arms and ammunition which will further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, my trusted colleagues and I in the bank, now seek for your permission to have you stand as late Nicholas Owen's next of kin so that the fund (USD$25m) would be subsequently transferred and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next of kin to Nicholas Owen. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund have been carefully worked out and we are assuring you a 100% risk free involvement. Your share would be 20% of the total amount while the rest would be for my colleagues and I for the purchase of properties in your country through you/your company. If this proposal is of interest to you, then kindly get to me immediately via my e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax and e-mail, so i can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation. Best regards, Mr. Wilfred Okpara, ECO Bank Plc.
