#211 Beware those bearing gifts too good to be true!

Peter, you are not the only one who has received notice of the opportunity of a lifetime. Here is just an example of some that I have received. I usually sent them to my ISP and a couple of anti-phishing sites. Needless to say, I NEVER respond to them.

Have a good laugh. btw, I did delete the email address to contact Mr. Lambo. Some of our readers might be tempted make contact.

I did not correct any of the misspellings in the following message.

Mr. George Lambo,
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.

My Dear,

I am Mr. George Lambo, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance department of ABSA Bank. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$14,700,000.00 (Fourteen Million,Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family,on November 1996, in a ghastly plane crash.

Since we got the information about his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased asindicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money.

It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin through your relation with the deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account. Moreover, we do not want the money to go into a government account as unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines herestipulates that any account abandoned or is dormant for a period of 10 years, is deemed closed and all money contained therein forfeited to the governmenttreasury account.

Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the middle of 2007, when nobody comes forward to lay claims. The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next ofkin, is occasioned by the fact thatthe deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we have access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin.

The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of thistransaction. Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in this business.

After receiving yourreply, you will be communicated to with the exact steps to take. I expect your urgent response. I shall contact you for further discussion on this matter, to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without any delay or hitch.

Please treat this business proposal asstrictly confidential for securityreasons considering my official position here in ABSA Bank. Do confirm your positive disposition towards this transaction by reaching me at

Regards,
Mr. George Lambo


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