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Please Treat as Urgent and Confidential

My good friend Adamu Attah, head of the FILE DEPARTMENT at the African Development Bank wants to give me money! I am printing his letter, exactly as written, because I am thinking my bank friend really needs some grammar, spelling and spacing review. In any case, I am much too busy these days to collect my 40% of 15.5 million dollars.

But it is summertime, and some people have a lot of time on their hands, and if you want to contact my friend Adamu Attah, here is his address:

adamu_attah1@sify.com

Please. Please. Do not send him any money, not for fees, not for deposits, not for anything. This is another of those hoax spams that some people actually respond to. Please, please, don’t be one of them.

FROM THE DESK OF ADAMU ATTAH

THE HEAD OF FILE DEPARTMENT,
AFRICAN

DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)

OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO WEST
AFRICA.

TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

PLANE CRASH WEB
SITE…http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

(“remittance of $15.5million u.s.a dollars

confidential is the case”)

compliments of the season
2008,

i am (adamu attah),head of file department & debt recovering in
african development bank ouagadougou burkina-faso in west
africa.

first, i must solicit your confidence in this transaction.this
is by

virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top
secret.

however after series of petition was recieved by this present
regime from foreign contractors and inability of the african
development bank (adb)to fulfill their obligation for the payment to
its foreign creditors, in conjunction with the council of ministers,
they mandated us to carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all
overdue payments to foreign contractors and to effect payments
immediately.

during the above mentioned process, we discovered an
abandoned sum of us$15.5 m (fifteen 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 a plane crash that happened in
(monday 31st july 2000).since we got information about his death, we
have been expecting his next of kin 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 guidelines
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 and
other officials in my

department now 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 and subsequent disbursement since
nobody is coming for it and we don’t want this money to go into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill.

i agree that 40% of this money will be for
you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account,and 50% would be for me, while 10% will be for expenses incure
during the transaction. there after i will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated.therefore, to enable
the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply
first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating
your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax
number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the
money will be remitted.

upon the receipt of your reply, i will send to
you by email the text of the application to fill and send to the bank. i
will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is
hitch-free risk and this transaction will only take us 14 banking days
because as a banker, i know what to do and move the fund into your
account without any delay and thatyou should not entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangement have been made for the transfer.

you
should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that i will
send you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased .

your’s faithfully,

adamu attah

from (adb) ouagadougou burkina-faso.

July 26, 2008 - Posted by | Africa, Blogging, Community, Crime, Cross Cultural, Fund Raising, Lies, Social Issues

8 Comments »

  1. Sefinitely a scam! Their main objective is to either spread virus or get the readers addresses and bank account info for their not-so-legal transactions!

    Ansam's avatar Comment by Ansam | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  2. Sefinitely = Definitely

    Ansam's avatar Comment by Ansam | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  3. I’m all for it!!! Just dump the money in a Swiss numbered bank-account, and mail me the number.
    And thanks very much. πŸ˜€

    Aafke.Art's avatar Comment by Aafke | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  4. These emails have been around forever. If you had been using Gmail you wouldn’t have seen it at all in your inbox at all.

    3baid's avatar Comment by 3baid | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  5. Oh my gosh, I must get a half dozen of these a day! Poor folks with all that extra money that they don’t know what to do with! πŸ™‚

    carly's avatar Comment by carly | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  6. “hitch-free risk” – love it!

    adiamondinsunlight's avatar Comment by adiamondinsunlight | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  7. i liked the yours faithfully part ! hehe

    Abdulaziz's avatar Comment by Abdulaziz | July 26, 2008 | Reply

  8. Ansam – you are so right. But some of them are just funny, the way they try to manipulate people through greed.

    Aafke – that’s the spirit!

    3aid – I don’t get very many even now. I actually have a gmail account, but I never check it!

    Carly – and bless their generous little hearts, they want to share it with US!

    Little Diamond – and I like that he says it is from Ougadougou, Burkina Faso!

    Abdulaziz – Yes, it is their sincerity while they are trying to fleece us that cracks me up, too!

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | July 27, 2008 | Reply


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