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Email Scam Beware

I was checking my mail when I read this piece of email from a certain Mr.Salif Zoungrana who claimed to be from BANK OF AFRICA OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO saying that theres a lot of cash that awaits me if I help him . Knowing that a lot of email scams are existing I searched for topics relating to the bank stated above and the name of the person in the email . Yes , once again , Mr. Google was intelligent enough to give me email scam links here , here and here.

By the way here is the email , you might find it in your inbox one day :


MR,Salif Zoungrana
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.
ATTN:
This message might meet you in utmostsurprise,However,Its just my urgent need for a foreign partner that mademe to contact you for this transaction,I am a banker by profession fromBurkina Faso currently holding the post of a director auditing andaccounting section of the bank.
I have the opportunity of transferringthe left over fund($18 m USD) which bellongs to one of my client who died along with his family in a plane crash.
After furtherinvestigation it was discovered that the deceased person did notdeclare any next of kin in his official papers including the paper workof his bank deposit.

And he also confided in me the last time he was atmy office that no one except me knew of his deposit in my bank. So,(18 million united State Dollars) is still lying in my bank and no one will ever come forward to claim it. What bothers me is that according to the laws of my country at the expiration sevenyears six months the funds will revert to the ownership of the Burkina Government if nobody applies to claim the funds.

My proposal, I am prepared to place you as the next of kin in a position to instruct BOA BANK to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation.
Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the money with you 60/30 while 10% will be mapped for expenses that may be incured in the preoccess of transfering this fund into your account. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the deposit to you.

We share the procentange 60/30. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line in my involvement in claiming the deposit.

I assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased person I will then officially communicate with my Bank and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these: all is done. I am aware of the consequences of this proposal.

I ask that if you find no interestin this project that you should discard this mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you.

Do not destroy my career because you do not approve of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector. I am not a criminal and what I do,I do not find against good conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my industry dictates that I make this move.
Such opportunities only come ones way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find myself in totalcontrol of my destiny.
These chances wont pass me by. I ask that you donot destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let me move on with my life but do not destroy me.

I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities. There is a reward for this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.

Ihave evaluated the risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing.

If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels;

I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you contacting me through my official email account.
Contact me only through the numbers I will provide foryou, Further more be informed that the fact that you are a foreigner gives you the privilege to stand in as my deceased client beneficiary as my deceased client had no relation all his family died with him in a plane crash and I can not use my relation because its not accepted herein Burkina Faso.

Also I am very confident that we will be able to establish the trust that is needed to complete this deal and all that I need from the time been is your willingness and commitment so that we can end this in the nest one weeks.

Like I said before there is no risk involve as it will pass through international banking laws and all the necessary information will be given to you in later.

I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level of customercare in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please observe this instruction religiously. Please, again, note I am a family man, I have wife and children.
I send you this mail not without a measure offer as to what the consequences, but I know within me that no thing ventured is nothing gained and that success and riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.

This is the one truth I have learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting soon.

Futher detailes of the transfer will be sent to you as soon as i receive a positive response from you.
Thanks.
MR,Salif Zoungrana.

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