UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
STALLON HOUSE, LAGOS
NIGERIA.
FROM THE DESK OF: MR. OBOH THOMPSON
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Dear Galileo,
First, l must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET.
Though l know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one
apprehensive and worried, but l 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. I am MR. OBOH THOMPSON, a director with
the Union Bank Plc, Lagos. 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 Theophilus Baker, an Oil Merchant/contractor
with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death in a ghastly
air crash, banked with us here at Union Bank Plc, Lagos, and had a
closing balance as at the end of March, 2001 worth USD$31.5Million (Thirty
One Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank
now expects a next-of-kin to claim as beneficiary. Valuable efforts are
being made by the Union Bank Plc to get in touch with any of the
Baker�s family or relatives but there has been no success till date. It is
because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of
late Engr. Theophilus Baker�s next-of-kin (he had no wife nor children
that is known to us). The management under the influence of our Chairman
and member of the board of directors, retired Chief Kalu Uke. Kalu,
that an arrangement has been 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, some of my trusted
colleagues and l now seek your permission to have you stand as a
next-of-kin to the late Engr. Thoephilus Baker so that the fund USD$31.5Million could
be paid to you directly or into your account and for you to contact a the security
company we proposed to use to disburse this funds into your account or for the funds
to be forwarded to you personally with the modality of claim settled here on your
behalf.
All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be
carefully worked out. We have secured from the probate an order of madamus
to locate any of the deceased beneficiaries, and more so we are
assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest
would be for myself and my colleagues for investment purposes in your
country. We have agreed that, the funds will be shared thus, after it
has been transferred into your account.
1. 25% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
fund.
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. 65% to us the originators of the transaction.
If this proposal is accepted by you. Do not take undue advantage of the
trust we have bestowed on you and your company, then kindly get to me
immediately on the above email address, furnishin me with your
confidential telephone, exclusive bank /account particulars or rather give me this
information so that i can forward them to the security company that will be contacting
you on how to come and full withdrawal of the whole money.
so that l can use this information to apply for the release and
subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour .
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.
Yours faithfully,
MR. OBOH THOMPSON,
DIRECTOR. UNION BANK PLC.)
