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(GURRANT TRUST BANK ABUJA, NIGERIA) 21/02/2006 FROM: MR mike kelven ACCOUNTANT, GTBank ABUJA - NIGERIA Email:mikekelven@yahoo.co.uk Dear SIR/MAMA First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions of this nature.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you am MR mike kelven an Accountant with the GURRANTY TRUST Bank Of Nigeria.Abuja.I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and Reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account requiring maximum confidence. THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Gillespie, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Gurranty Trust Bank,Abuja Nigeria, and had a closing balance of US$2.2M (two Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expectsit to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary or Alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and Ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the gurranty trust Bank to get in touch with any of the Gillespie family or relatives but proved to avail.It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr. Johnson Gillespie's next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our
chairman and member of the board of rectors,retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu,that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE"and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general.
In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.Johnson Gillespie so that the funds US$2.2M would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues for and myself Investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account 1. 30% of the money will go to you for
acting as the beneficiary of the funds. 2. 10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course ! of the transfer. 3. 60% to us the originators of the transaction. If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my private Email:mikekelven@yahoo.co.uk.
Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I can use this information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor. Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-peration. Yours faithfully,
MIKE KELVEN
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(GURRANT TRUST BANK ABUJA, NIGERIA) 21/02/2006 FROM: MR mike kelven ACCOUNTANT, GTBank ABUJA - NIGERIA Email:mikekelven@yahoo.co.uk Dear SIR/MAMA First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions of this nature. Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you am MR mike kelven an Accountant with the GURRANTY TRUST Bank Of Nigeria.Abuja.I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and Reputable person to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account requiring maximum confidence. THE PROPOSITION: A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Gillespie, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Gurranty Trust Bank,Abuja Nigeria, and had a closing balance of US$2.2M (two Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expectsit to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary or Alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and Ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the gurranty trust Bank to get in touch with any of the Gillespie family or relatives but proved to avail.It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late Engr. Johnson Gillespie's next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our
chairman and member of the board of rectors,retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu,that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared "UNCLAIMABLE"and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted colleagues and I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late Engr.Johnson Gillespie so that the funds US$2.2M would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement.
Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues for and myself Investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account 1. 30% of the money will go to you for
acting as the beneficiary of the funds. 2. 10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course ! of the transfer. 3. 60% to us the originators of the transaction. If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via my private Email:mikekelven@yahoo.co.uk. Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I can use this information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor. Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-peration. Yours faithfully, MIKE KELVEN
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