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An Email with the Subject "TREAT AS URGENT" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:44:31 -0700 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as Eric Sawadogo <ericsawadogo@orange.net>.
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FROM:MR ERIC SAWADOGO Bills & Exchange Manager BANK OF AFRICA(BOA) TEL+226 70 33 56 53 BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA. I am contacting you in regards to a business transfer of a huge sum of money from a deceased account. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. PROPOSITION; We discovered an abandoned sum of $13M(THIRTEEN Million United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family. Since his death, none of his next-of-kin or relations has come forward to lay claims to this money as the heir. We cannot release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines. Upon this discovery, we now seek your permission to have you stand as a next of kin to the deceased as all documentations will be carefully worked out by us for the funds $13M(THIRTEEN Million United States Dollars) to be released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may interest you to note that we have secured from the probate an order of madamus to locate any of deceased beneficiaries. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following: 1. Your Full Names and Address. 2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers. These requirements will enable us file a letter of claim to the appropriate departments for necessary approvals in your favour before the transfer can be made. We shall be compensating you with 30% on final conclusion of this project, while the rest shall be for us. Your share stays with you while the rest shall be for us for investment purposes in your country. If this proposal is acceptable by you, do not take undue advantage of the trust we have bestowed in you, I await your urgent email. Regards, MR ERIC SAWADOGO