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URGENT POSITIVE RESPONSE IS NEEDED.

Saturday, September 27, 2008 10:46 AM
From balfour terence Sat Sep 27 08:46:30 2008

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URGENT POSITIVE RESPONSE IS NEEDED.

Barrister Balfour
Terence(ESQ)
Ouagadougou-Burkina Faso
Tel: +226
78342050
Email:[email protected]
West Africa.

Attn:

With due
respect, I am Barrister Balfour Terence, a legal practitioner. I have
a
Client (awidow) she has US$6.2 million dollars which her late
husband,Prof. Konate Domba, former minister of national education and
culture
here in Burkina Faso kept somewhere secret. She, Mrs. Domba
decide after thefamily members of the late husband sued her to Court of
Law with falseaccusation which resulted failure but the family are still
threaten to deal with her after several accusations that she kill her
husband and as a family Lawyer, she discussed with me personally to look
for a reliable and trustworthy person to stands as business partner to
herlate husband in collaboration to move the above mentioned sum
fromwhere her late husband deposited secretly for safe keeping when he
wasworking as a minister. Though, I know that a transaction of
thismagnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I
havedecided to contact you due to the urgency.

For your
information:Mrs. Agnes Domba is not interested in only who will help her
claiming the money but who will also assist her to invest in a stable
economy with potentials for rapid growth in long terms. To justify your
seriousness and honesty, call me as soon as you reply this mail for my
immediate attention to enable me send you more details on howto contact
the Security Company for the release of the fund.

Yours
faithfully,
Barrister Balfour Terence
Tel: +226 78342050
NB: Thefund
is free from drug and laundering related offences.


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[DNP]

Of course! Just trash these mail, bro and move on.

 

[rentdn]

I'm getting similiar emails every day ranging from 3-10 / daily , I'm glad that gmail spam filter works well .

This is famous Nigerian scam scheme

 

[dolansco]

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[stewie]

I get a ton of those.....just delete delete delete

:yo:

 

[fab]

You're new here. This is every day spam/scam.

 

[Sheva]

I get about 20/30 emails like that every day

 

[LintonInvestments]

I get these all the time - flag it as junk and go on with your day

 

[abglobal]

Delete it straight away. Dont be tempeted... i know it may sound silly to most of us but people fall for these scams and get ripped off for thousands of dollars. I worked in fraud prevention in a law enforcement environment for a few years and have seen people come in having lost tens of thousands of dollars!

Don't fall for it! It is a 419 scam!

ABGlobal

 

[MacyT.]

I truly don't understand how anyone could fall for this. Call me naive.

 

[democrat]

I truly don't understand how anyone could fall for this. Call me naive.

I'm calling you naive

 

[allanh]

old news....