Yawn! Another idiot with the same boring story. Anyone got any stats on how successful these morons are, now that these scams are so widely covered on the internet?

From The Desk of From Usman Ahmed Bill and Exchange Officer Foreigner Remittance Dept African Development Bank Burkina Faso

Dear Friend,
I am the officer of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of African development bank.

In my department i discovered an abandoned sum ofUS$10.5 US dollars (ten
million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in July 2000
plane crash.
website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
ofkin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation
to the deceased for safety andsubsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as
unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and
aBurkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.I agree that 30% of
this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn
account , 10%will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business
.Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated.

Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of thisfund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or nextof kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number,your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communicationand location where in the
money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any
atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer.You should contact me immediately as soon as youreceive this
letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully
Usman Ahmed
Bill and Exchange officer

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