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An Email with the Subject "DO NOT FAIL MY REQUEST IMPORTANT INFORMATION URGENT RESPOND" was received in one of Scamdex's honeypot email accounts on Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:23:27 -0700 and has been classified as a Advance Fee Fraud/419 Scam Email. The sender shows as ahmed aminu <ahmed_aminu@voila.fr>.
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DO NOT FAIL MY REQUEST IMPORTANT INFORMATION URGENT RESPOND
I am Mr Ahmed Aminu from Burkina Faso , West Africa, here in Ouagadougou . I work with
Bank Of Africa Burkina Faso , (BOA) I am writing following an opportunity in my office that will be of an immense benefit to both of us. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$20M dollars (Twenty Million US dollars) an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Late Mr. Morris Thompson an American who unfortunately lost his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed on August 13, 2001, including his wife and only daughter.
You shall read more about the crash on visiting this site.
http://www.alaskajournal.com/stories/081301/foc_native_corps.shtml
The choice of contacting you is aroused from the geographical nature of where you live, particularly due to the sensitivity of the transaction and the confidentiality herein.
Now our bank has been waiting for any of the relatives to come-up for the claim but nobody has done that. I personally have been
unsuccessful in locating the relatives for 2 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin / Will Beneficiary to the deceased so that the proceeds of this account valued at $20 Million Dollars can be paid to you. This will be disbursed or shared in these percentages, 60% to me and 40% to you.
All I require now is your honest co-operation; confidentiality and trust to enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee you that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Please, provide me the following: as we have seven (7) days to run it through. This is very URGENT PLEASE. KINDLY send the details below:
1. Full Name......................
2. Your Telephone Number..
3. Your Contact Address.....
4. Your photo.....................
5.Your sex........................
5.Your Age........................
Your urgent response will be highly
anticipated and appreciated.
Best regards,
Mr. Ahmed Aminu