NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER FROM

ANTHONY EZEKA

From: "ANTHONY EZEKA" <anthony2002@ureach.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 7:20 AM
Subject: VERY URGENT


FROM: MR. ANTHONY EZEKA
LAGOS - NIGERIA
E-mail: ezeka_anthony@mailasia.com


DEAR PARTNER,

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 anyone 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.

Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am MR. ANTHONY EZEKA, a manager with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc. Orile - Iganmu branch. 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 Creek, 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 Union Bank Plc. Lagos, and had a closing balance of US$6.5M (Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects it 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 Union Bank to get in touch with any of the Creek's 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 Creek's next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children) that myself and my trusted colleagues made an arrangement to declared the funds "UNCLAIMABLE"

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 Creek so that the funds US$6.5M 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 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 eneficiary of the funds.

2. 5% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer.
3. 70% 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. then kindly get to me immediately via my private email address above for security reason to enable me send you more information on how to proceed.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

MR. ANTHONY EZEKA
MANAGER (UNION BANK OF NIG. PLC.)

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