Just received investment opportunity!

[Merlin Orr]

Good Day,

Courtesy of Business opportunity, I take liberty anchored on strong desire to solicit for your assistance on this mutual beneficial and risk free transaction with you, which I hope you give urgent attention. To be precise, I am Robert Beaud the Manager of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Exchange/Remittance Department (Bank Name Withheld).

In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$30.5M (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our customers who died along with his entire family in 1988 Lockerbie Pan American Airline plane crash.

Since we got 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 its next of Kin or Relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking procedure, but unfortunately to no avail, and nobody has come forward to claim the money (because the mentioned next of kin which is Son died as well).

Therefore, upon this discovery I and other two officials in my department now decide to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. We want you to purportedly present your good self as the next of Kin or relation of the deceased so that we can prepare documentations and release the funds (US$30.5 Million) into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming f or it and again we do not want the funds to go into the Governments account as "Unclaimed Bill".

The banking law and procedures herein stipulates that any account abandoned or dormant for a period of some years is subjected to be closed and all money contained therein will be forfeited to the Government Treasury Account. Now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into Government Treasury Account as unclaimed funds on or before October 2003. The reason for you to present your good self as the next of kin in occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.

Mode of sharing: After the successful completion of the transfer is as follows, for the role you will expected to play in the whole exercise, we have agreed to give you twenty five (25%) of the total sum, and 5% has been set aside for expenses we are going to encounter by both parties in the process of this transaction and the remaining 70% shall be for my colleagues and I. In support of the aforementioned, you are urged to reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate in the business.

After you reply, you will be advised on the next step forward. I quite believe that you will protect our interest by keeping this business Top Secret and Confidential, as your interest will be equally protected in order to achieve and maintain maximum confidentiality. Trust to hear from you on my private email address: rbeaud@rbeaud14.com or with my above cell phone number, I count on your earliest response. Also provide me with your contact telephone and fax umber.

Sincerely Yours,

Mr. Robert Beaud

[Guest Larry Cazes]

We get these 2-3 times a week on our fax at work......Usually from the south african consulate.

[Merlin Orr]

Larry - How long did it take for you to get your share of the money???