I got this e-mail, today. This is priceless. They must have run out of royal families. I feel sorry for them. With all their royals dead, all they have to scam you with are African banks flooded with dead people’s cash.

Why are they writing scams when they could write novels? Look at the detail they put into this story! You have a Concord crash and all the relatives are dead. I mean isn’t this just like one of those Alistair MacLean novels?

But, of course, they quickly got down to the nitty gritty with the killer sentence – Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations 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 where the money will be remitted.

It really killed the flow of the story.

Well, I am foolishly untrusting! So, if you want my African fortune, you can have it. You don’t even have to send me a thank you.

Here is my “letter.”

{By the way, did you like the picture? Like my African bankers, these are crooks! (shepherd’s crooks in this case)}

 

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.

 

OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,WEST AFRICA.

Dear Friend,

I am the manager of auditing and accounting department African Development Bank (A.D.B). I got your address in Burkina Faso chamber of commerce through yahoo details. In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $25.7 m US dollars (Twenty five. Seven Million US dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a concord plane crash in the year 2004 in Paris that almost took the whole life of the passenger’s on board. 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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines 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 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 i don’t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after six years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations 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 where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the letter of demand for you to apply for the claim immediately.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.

Yours faithfully

DR WAHEED ABDUL

AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT. (A.D.B) BANK.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the letter of demand for you to apply for the claim immediately.

I hope this got a laugh. It’s all it got from me.

Best Wishes,

James Pilant