Dear Sir/Madam, I send you this e-mail with all humility and every seriousness of heart; believing that you will be the instrument God will use to help me in the present predicament I am facing as a widow. But I hope and so believe that you will lift off this burden from my shoulder.
I am Mrs. Margaret O. Giwa, the wife of the late Chief Rufus Foluso Giwa, the Chairman/Managing Director of Unilever Nigeria Plc. (formerly Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited) until his death on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 along Lagos-Ibadan-Sagamu Expressway when his car skidded off the road, somersaulted and landed in a thick bush while travelling to his home town. My predicament started with the tradition of property-grabbing on my late husband's properties by his family after his death. I and my children were asked to leave the house by his brothers so that they can absorbed with his properties a month after my husband's funeral, relying on tribal traditions because I did not have a male child for him before his death which they believed would had be the bread-winner of the family as regards to their traditional beliefs and custom. This suddenly destitute me as a widow and scrambled to get help from a church member who through her humane kindness, gave me and the children an apartment to lay our heads. My late husband's family do not even write or ask about the children nor do they want to help me educate the children so I have to struggle on my own to pay school fees and meet their other needs. As the beneficiary next-of-kin to my late husband's Domiciliary account with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, I was fortunate to leave the house with vital documents relating to the sum of $9,500,375.48 which was the closing balance of the money my late husband deposited with the aforementioned bank before his death. Last week when I contacted the bank Manager, I was reliably informed that the money was still very much intact and that I can as well come for it anytime I feel like. The truth of the matter is that I cannot make use of this money here due to the forces surrounding me at the moment as regards my late husband's family. Please have mercy on me as a widow and help me out of this predicament. All I want you to do for me is to provide me with your bank account information so that I can direct the bank to transfer the money into your account immediately before any of my late husband brothers or family member get to know about it. I strongly believe that the only way I can secure the money for myself and the children is to transfer the money overseas and subsequently make travel arrangement to come and meet with you. I pray that God in His infinite mercy will reward and bless you abundantly as you take this bold step to assist me in this regards irrespective of not have met with you neither have we communicated before. For your assistance, I am ready to give you 20% of the total sum while 80% will be for me and the children. For more information on the controversial exit of my husband, you can get the full import of this story on ThisDay Newspapers, one of Nigeria's dailies on front page (Page 1) of Thursday, March 27th, 2003 edition at ThisDay's website: www.thisdayonline.com I thank you most sincerely for your time and your anticipated assistance and I look forward to hearing from you at the above e-mail address or alternatively at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] May Almighty God bless you! Sincerely, Margaret O. Giwa (Mrs.) Alternate E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
