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E-Mail from Mr. Henry Bassey Udoma

Title: From: Henry Bassey Udoma (Regarding Dr. H. Paul Jacobi)

From: Henry (Regarding Dr. H. Paul Jacobi)

Hello,

I am sending you this private email to make a passionate appeal to you for assistance. Kindly accept my apology for contacting you this way and forgive me if this is not acceptable to you. My name is Henry Bassey Udoma; I am an auditor at one of the Nigerian Banks.

On Tuesday, 19 January, 1999, one Dr. H. Paul Jacobi a foreigner, made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit, valued at £10,550,000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds) for twelve calendar months in my Bank Branch.

Upon Maturity, we sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his company that Dr. Paul A. Jacobi was aboard the Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. After further investigation, it was discovered that he died without making a WILL and all attempts to trace his next of kin proved abortive.

On further investigation, it was discovered that Late Dr. Paul A. Jacobi did not declare any next of kin or relatives in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit paper work here in our Bank. The total sum, £10,550,000.00 is still in my bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it.

In accordance with my country's banking laws and constitution, at the expiration of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the Government treasury if nobody applies as the next of Kin to claim the funds. Consequently, I shall present you as a foreign partner to stand in as the next of kin to the late Dr. Paul A. Jacobi.

Upon acceptance of this proposal, I shall send to you the National Bank Plc "Next of Kin Payment Application Form" as well as detailed information on how this transaction would be carried out. We shall employ the services of a solicitor for the drafting of the LAST WILL & TESTAMENT of Late Dr. Paul A. Jacobi and to obtain all other relevant papers in your name for the necessary documentation for payment approval in my bank headquarters in your favour.

The money will be shared in the ratio: Sixty percent for me and my colleagues, thirty percent for you and 10% would be set aside to offset all expenses in course of the transfer.

I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law as I and my colleagues will use my position to guarantee the successful execution of this transaction. Please be informed that your utmost confidentiality is required. Should this proposal meet your interests respond back via my alternate email .

Awaiting your urgent response.

Respectfully,

Mr. Henry Bassey Udoma

It seems like they have abandoned the old trunk boxes and the traditional security company. It still looks very much like the old standard scam: Some person left a large sum of money at the bank. The he died and left neither relatives nor a last will behind. Now the bank wants me to impersonate a realtive of this dead person so that I can receive the money and share it with them. Of cource I will be required to pay certain fees and bribes for this transaction to go on and then when I'm out of money they will dissapair without trace in the Nigerian jungle.