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An Email with the Subject "Dear Friend..Urgent Please" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:22:10 -0400 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as "GEORGE IKOLI"<barr.georgeikoli@oi.com.br>.
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Dear Friend, I presume this letter will come to you as a surprise, but as thingsunfold,we will know each other better. I will start by introducingmyself to you.My name is George Ikoli a solicitor at law. I am writingin respect of a foreigner Mr Martin Greenberg,who happens to be my clientan oil merchant and contractor who perished in a plane crash of 31stOctober 1999[WITH EGYPTIAN AIRLINE 990] with other passengers aboardas you can confirm it yourself through the website below. http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/31/egyptair.03/ Since the demise of my client I personally have watched with keen interest to see the next of kin but all has proved abortive as no one has come to claim his funds of US$28.5m(Twenty Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollar) and all the relevant documents in the bank has no record of any next of kin. On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as his next of kin so I have contacted you to assist in repatriating most especially, the money left behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where the huge deposits were lodged. Particularly, the Equity Development Bank Plc where the deceased had an account valued at about Usd28.5 million dollars has issued me a notice to provide the Next of kin, or have the account confiscated. I seek your consent to present you as the Next of kin of the deceased since read your profile I know you can assist me as I need somebody who is trustworthy and willing to assist me get the funds transfered.Whcih the account which my late client operate is valued at Usd28.5 million dollars can be paid to you, as my clients Next of Kin, and then we can share the amount on a mutual agreed percentage. All legal documents to back up your claim as the deceased Next of Kin will be provided. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under al egitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law and you should endeavor to keep it confidential. Please get in touch with me at,(george_ikoli22@post.ro) to enable us discuss further about this transaction. Best Regards, Barr.George Ikoli.