Expectedly Unexpected

I received this email in my inbox the other day and thought it would be great to share with you a little piece of information that all you readers should take note due to the fact that Hotmail failed to detect that this email I received is spam and a hoax.

FROM THE DESK OF RAJI RAJI
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.

Dear Friend,

How are you, first i will explain my self little to you before we continue. I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)I am writing to seek your interest over a transaction.

In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars (FIFTEEN MILLIONS US DOLLARS) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2002 in a 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 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 other officials in my department 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 we 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 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.

We agree that 30 % 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 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. 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 in the money will be remitted.

Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application. 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.

Your’s faithfully,
RAJI RAJI
Bill and Exchange Manager,
Africa Development Bank (A.D.B)

Dear stranger and most generous manager of the African Development Bank,

First and foremost, thank you for your very generous proposal to share 30% of the USD 15 million which sums up to USD 4.5 million of supposedly unclaimed funds of a deceased foreign millionaire. It only just occurred to me that you and your colleagues are taking 60% of the total amount of funds, which translates to USD 9 million, for your own pockets. 9 million dollars is a huge amount of money to split between you and your colleagues. I’m sure with this sudden influx of cash flowing into your account, the bank and most probably the government you suspect a fraudulent hoax in the making, don’t you think?

Well, 4.5 million dollars for me is well more than enough for me and my entire family to live very very comfortable lives without even needing to lift a hand to work and earn any income. However, I’m afraid that my claims as next of kin would not be authentic enough for the bank to see through so easily. I do admit that I am a coward at time, in fact, I am a coward most of the time when it comes to managing big sums of cash.

I’m sorry to inform you that I will not be enclosing my bank details to you as I am not interested in your proposal although it is a very hard one to decline. It took me several seconds to decide whether or not I should accept your wonderful proposal.

Finally, I am sorry to hear that the entire family of this foreign millionaire, even all of his next of kin, are all dead in an air plane crash. It was such a coincidence that his entire family was with him. Must be some big vacation of sorts.

One last word, I thank you once again for your proposal. I am flattered and totally blown away by your ways of persuasion using petty standards of English and low accuracy of grammar and spelling. (Note: AFRICAN Development Bank at the top of the letter and AFRICA Development Bank under your name ans not only several but a whole bunch of punctuation errors throughout the entire letter.) I do hope that you do improve your standard of English. As a Bill and Exchange Manager of a the African/Africa Development Bank, the standard of English will reflect your banks status and esteem. Sadly, your bank has failed to impress me whatsoever.

I do hope you take my advice in improving your level of English and I shall not bid you any luck in transferring the funds over to yourself and colleagues.

Thank you for your time.

Your’s unFaithfully,

Guang.