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From: Barrister Henry Williams Esq.
Aziz & Associates
Solicitors, Corporate & Property Consultants
Nigeria.
Dear Friend,
I hope this meets you in good health. My name is Henry Williams Esq. a
legal practitioner and
Attorney to late Mr. Ziya Bazhayev who died in the plane crash of Yak-40
jetliner on March 9,
2000. You may follow the Link below to read about the Plane Crash my
client lost his life:
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/031500/usn_LA0703.001.shtml &
http://news.1chinastar.com/ll/english/61934.shtml
My late client was an influential wealthy businessman, a Russian
Contractor in my Country and a
Russian big time Oil dealer and the Principal owner of Oil Alliance
Company and he left behind a
deposit of Twelve Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollar
($12,200,000.00USD) in his
domiciliary bank account in a commercial bank here in Nigeria. Which is
one of the main reasons
it has been very important to locate his next of kin. I have employed
every method to locate any
of my clients extended relatives but this exercise has proved unsuccessful.
After the death of my client his bankers contacted me, as his Attorney to
provide his next of kin
who should inherit his fortune. The board of directors of his bank adopted
a resolution and I was
mandated to provide his next of kin for the payment of this money or
forfeit the money to the
bank as an abandoned Estate. The bankers had planned to invoke a clause in
the property Act, to
confiscate the funds after the expiration of a period given to me.
Despairing and at the point of desperation, I came across your name, while
trying to locate
documentation's regarding possible relatives of my client in his country
of origin. Convinced
that you may be able to act in locus for my late client as his next of
kin, I therefore, decided
to contact you with these facts before me because of the status quo. By
virtue of my brief and my
closeness to the deceased, I am very much aware of my client's financial
standing and the bank
account he operates here in my country.
I have reasoned very professionally and I feel it will be legally proper
to present you as the
next of kin of my deceased client and the sole beneficiary of his estate,
so that you are be paid
the funds left in his bank account, hence I contacted you. I seek your
consent to present you as
the Next of Kin; the bank needs only the facts as presented legally. The
rest is between you and
I and with my guide we can have the money paid into your account, once
this is done we shall both
share the funds. 50% to me and 40% to you, while 10% should be for
Expenses or Taxes as your
Government may require, I shall assemble all the necessary Legal Documents
that will be used to
back up our claim .All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us
see this deal through I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from
any Breach of law. Please get in touch with me.
Best Regards,
Henry Williams Esq.
contact email address:(censored)
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