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The sender shows as mariam abacha <dr7_mariam@yahoo.com>.
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[from:] => mariam abacha
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[subject:] => URGENT ASSISTANCE
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May the blessings of God be upon you and grant you the wisdom and sympathy to understand my situation and how much I need your help.
I am really very sorry for the embarrassment of intruding into your privacy especially as we have not had previous correspondences before this mail.
I am Mrs Mariam Abacha (a devoted Moslem), wife of Late Gen. Sanni Abacha, ex-military Head of State (Federal Republic of Nigeria) who died of heart problem while still on active service on the 8th of June 1998.
I am contacting you in view of the fact that we will be of great assistance to each other especially in the area of developing a cordial business relationship and also because of my need to deal with persons with whom I have not had any dealings with before due to the privacy and confidentiality the business I need your assistance demands.
Since the death of my
husband, I have been subjected to all sorts of harassments, intimidations and inhumane treatments, with negative reports emanating from the government and the press regarding my husband's past military regime and my eldest son Mohammed who has been held by this same government and released just some months back is being asked to refund $1.2 billion dollars. Most of our trusted Associates betrayed us because of Ministerial Jobs and Appointments.
I currently have within my reach the sum $130,000,000.00 (one hundred and thirty million us dollars cash.) Split into two different portions of sixty five million us dollars only $65,000,000.00 (each). They are sealed in two (2)trunk boxes which we intend to use for investment purposes like real estate development and bonded securities as well as some other viable business ventures that I can be introduced to if theneed arises.
After our Government had seized
virtually all our assets, this money came as my last hope, a payback contract deal between my late husband and a Russian Firm relating to our country�s multi-billion dollar Ajaokuta Steel Plant.
The Russian partners returned my husbands benevolence and kindness to them by sending my late husbands share of this stated amount after his death which they carefully lodged into a security vault of a security firm in Europe and Africa in accordance to my instructions as the next of kin to my late husband (this is not a stolen govt money as the international press has been branding most of our assets).
The good thing about this arrangement is that no record ever existed concerning the money traceable by the government because there is no documentation showing that we received this money from our Russian business partners and also it has no association with no body here in Nigeria.
Even the security firm where
the funds were deposited does not know the contents to be money as I carefully instructed the Director of the Russian firm to make the deposit and declare the consignment to contain just FAMILY VALUABLES FOR THE ABACHA FAMILY MEANT FOR A FOREIGN BUSINESS ASSOCIATE.
Due to the situation in our country concerning government attitude towards my family and our assets, it has become quite impossible for me to make use of the money within and outside our country without raising eyebrows, that is why I need your assistance as a neutral individual and a foreigner to help us arrange for the investment and handling of this said funds.
I will need you to contact me strictly by this private confidential mail address so that we can talk about this and plan about the possible claim and transfer of the consignment into your name as my family foreign business partner who will claim the consignment.
As soon as I receive a
word from you, I will give you further proof of the deposit details so that we can know how to move further for the claim.
You can make further confirmations to this through this reference:
(Front page BBC World news of 12th august & 4th Sept 2000)
The last transfer of Twenty one Million United States Dollars (US$21,000,000) I made into a friend's foreign account in Europe, after the successful transfer, my friend denied me because of my restricted movement within and outside Nigeria, and converted the money to himself alone.
This is the main point why I needed your help. We have lost so much trying to make transfers through some of my husband�s associates who at last failed us and disappeared into thin air. This fund is considered as the main source of my family's future hope.
When the first US$65 million dollars is claimed and secured through your assistance and our share transferred,
my lawyer who is also my close Confidant would be able to establish an investment plan with your assistance on our family�s behalf until I come out of my travail.
I hereby use this opportunity to implore you to exercise the utmost indulgence and keep this matter extra ordinarily confidential.
Remember to include your direct private telephone, fax and cell phone for easy communication pls.
Attached is my international passport and picture for your perusal also.
I wait patiently for your response.
Yours truly,
Dr. (Mrs.) Mariam Abacha
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