A large box of money
Dr Kalume
I feel very sorry to interrupt your peace since you are not expecting to receive any mail from me. However, I was obliged to do so due to the importance and urgency of the message.
I crave your indulgence, and want to reassure you that I mean well and that it is only for our mutual good. So please do not be embarrassed or suspicious. My name is Dr. Kalume Zaman. I am a social worker with an international Non-Governmental/Voluntary organization based in Switzerland. I am the Accounts/Project Director in-charge of South America regional representation. Our organization, through the local NGO'S and other Agencies and in partnership with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR,UNESCO, etc works and sponsors development projects and social services in some third world/developing countries, assistance and re-settlement of victims of natural disaster, civil wars and Refugees, displaced/oppressed children and minority people around the world.
I am just back from Iraq where in the cause of performing our duties we found in a box a large amount of money in cash in an abandoned house, I reached an agreement with the members of my team whom are UN officials (two in number) and we agreed to keep this money to ourselves and they moved the box out of Iraq to Europe (with their immunity as UN officials they are not searched at borders or airports).
Now, I am in need of a reliable and trustworthy person or company overseas whom I can confidently work with. My work does not permit me to own a foreign bank account or any personal business until retirement. I have the honor to confide this information in you and to request for your pleasure to assist to receive and secure the money in your account, pending our retirement from service. Please understand that my approach to you is based only on my positive reasoning and on the belief that you will not disappoint or betray me at last. The amount is fairly huge and we have agreed that on completion of the deal, you will retain some reasonable percentage of the money as a compensation for your assistance.
By any standard, the money is cool and legal and therefore quite safe and secure for all of us. However, to consider our official positions, reputation and integrity, especially, the opportunities in the business itself, it is very necessary that all due care be taken so that we do not miss the opportunity due to carelessness. You are therefore expected and advised to display high degree of maturity, responsibility and understanding in handling this information.
There would be a meeting in Europe where we moved the money to, for further discussions and to consummate the transaction at once. I will give you all the details in my next mail when you have indicated your interest and commitment to work with me. Always remember that this is the highest confidence and trust any person can repose on the other, especially when it is considered that we did not know ourselves before. I hope you will honor me too.
NOTE: I know there may be scams and junk mails flying here and there on the internet but certainly, this is not one. Please do not fail to understand that in spite of all that, opportunities of this kind still abound. If you have ever wished or prayed for something good to come your way, now I urge you to take this message seriously and with an open mind. You could never know. This may be an answer to your prayers.
So please give it a benefit of doubt and with good faith and trust join me and I am assuring you now that you will never be disappointed. Please reply by email urgently and furnish me with your TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS, for further details. Treat as strictly confidential.
Best regards,
Dr. Kalume Zaman
Our reply
Dear ZalumeThanks for your recent email regarding your need for help in this delicate matter.
How I can I be of futher assistance?
Kindest regards
Lord Buster
Mayfair
London
Dr Kalume
Firstly, I must thank you for replying I must confess my rather bizarre mail. Secondly, I must inform you that I have been working for relief web; a non government organization that works in partnership with the United Nations. Our head office is in New York in the United Nations h/q but my office is in Geneva Switzerland also in the United Nations office though I am presently in London now on posting
I have been working with this org. For almost 12 years now and we have been involved actively in partnership with the un in amassing funds from other Ngos, philanthropists and good willed citizens all over the world for the purpose of providing relief materials, health care and other humanitarian activities in distressed areas all over the world including Somalia, Bosnia etc and presently Iraq.
My colleagues (two un officials in my team, an American and a Briton) and I are the only people aware of this money, luckily for us it was only three of us that ran into this abandoned building to avoid fire near Basra where we saw this money and we agreed to keep it to ourselves, I must inform you that over 450millionusd have been looted from the central bank of Iraq and the coalition forces have discovered more than 700 million usd in such abandoned buildings, you can confirm this information from www.cnn.com.
My colleagues used their immunity as U.N. diplomats to move this money immediately to London and deposited it in a security company. The main reason why we need you is because we international relief agents especially those attached to the U.N. are required by law to report to our main office all financial transactions we embark on even if its our family we are sending money to we have to report it to our office officially and the banks are also advised to contact our offices too, you know our jobs deals mainly with collection of cash donation for relief purpose from all over the world so most banks gives us concession when we have transaction so if such regulations are not in place some relief agents might resort to laundering money and the rest so because of this regulation we cannot open accounts in our names to deposit this money as our office will be contacted immediately and we will not be able to defend this money and that will be a very big problem for us.
In this light I and my partners decided to contact someone that is total stranger to us so that there can never be any link between us in future and this makes it very safe for us, so we searched on the internet and got your details. We will use you to deposit this money into a banking system for investment purpose and others. You will have to meet with me in London immediately so after our meeting you will open an account in London so we can retrieve this money from the security company and deposit it into your account in London and you will instruct the bank in London how you want them to transfer the money out for investment purpose.
We have already made contacts in this bank so they will accept this money from you in London without asking many questions about the source. Due to the nature of our jobs we must not be associated to this transaction on records, in fact my partners have asked me not to reveal their identity under no condition till much later so all accounts and documentation has to be in your name though I will be in London with you. As soon as this money is in your account in London we would have entrusted our future and that of our families to your hands, we hope it will be safe.
