This is what happens when someone responds to these e-mails about us all getting filthy rich...
I'm sad to report....it looks like it was just a scam.....

Sorry abut the length of this, but it was necessary to get the full effect.

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FROM JOHN KALO. 
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT 
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA (IBA), 
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO 

Dear Stuart, 

                                 (TOP SECRET) 
I am John Kalo, the director in charge of auditing and accounting section 
of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA (IBA) Ouagadougou Burkina-Faso in West
Africa with due respect and regard. I have decided to contact you on a
 business transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us 
at the end of the transaction. 
During our investigation and auditing in this bank, my department came
 across a very huge sum of money belonging to a deceased person who died 
on 31st October  1999 in a plane crash and the fund has been dormant in 
his account with this Bank without any claim of the fund
[ BLAH BLAH DEAD BANK CUSTOMER LETTER BLAH BLAH ] 

... The said amount was U.S $7.2M (seven million two hundred United
States  dollars).
[ BLAH BLAH ]
Meanwhile all the whole arrangement to put claim over this fund as the
 bonafide next  of kin to the deceased, 
[ BLAH BLAH ]
On smooth  conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to 30%
[ BLAH BLAH ]

I look forward to receive your email Or Call me on my direct mobile phone 
00226 85-19-14. 
Yours faithfully, 
Mr.John Kalo. 

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Hello John

O.K. I'll bite.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste.

My name is Stuart de baker Hawke (call me Stew for short).

So you want to give me 2.4 million dollars, that seems only fair. 
If I  believed it that is. Why would you want to give it to me? 
Why will it cost  $360,000 in phone calls and expenses? 
It seems to good to be true. However  I do have bank accounts 
and you are quite welcome to put any amount of money  in any of them 
if you wish.

Yours

Stew de Baker Hawke
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Dear Stuart;
   Are intrested in doing this deal with me or not?
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Hi John

I am not sure. What would I have to do? Is it safe? 
I mean could I get into trouble with the police or anything like that?

Stew
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Dear Stuart, 
Thank you for your mail,I will want to start assuring you of the 
risk free of this  business by introducing myself to you, I am a man 
of 49 years old and am happily  married with three kids. I have been 
working in this Bank for the past 18 years

Before I got into this transcation,I have done all underground arrangements
regarding to this business.All Banking rules and regulation guiding this Bank are 
emobodied within   me,I can not and will not involve myself in any 
businesss that I deem unhealthy to me. 
Regards to this transaction, I have worked hard for two years now 
trying to gather all the required information about this deceased
customer after I found out that all his supposed next of kin are all 
dead leaving  nobody behind to put claim over his left balance with this bank. 
I also got into his  security file jacket in this bank and got all the
 needed information about his account and all information his next of 
kin should know. Because he was a foreigner, an American national, 
then I started  looking for a foreign partner who will help me put 
claim over this fund.  I will  forward to you all the needed information 
and will guide you adequately in this transaction.

Good underground work has been done within the bank, I have been working
 hard towards  the success of this transaction. Everything has been put into
 place and the  transaction is 100% risk free and will be finished in 
less than  7 banking days  after the application is tendered to the bank as 
next of kin to the deceased  putting claim over his balance with the bank.

  I will forward to you a text of application you will tender to the bank 
as next  of kin to the deceased with all the required information about 
the deceased and his account particulars with this bank after yourreply.I
 will  be glad if you call  me on my confidential  phone 00226-85 -19-14 
for more discussion.

You have to also re-assure me that my own share of the funds will be safe 
in your  hands after the succesful inheritance and transfer of this fund 
to your account.

I await your call and reply as the urgency implies.

More blessing to you and your family.
Yours brother
Mr.J.Kalo..
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Hello John

Sorry I havn't been able to call I never seem to be near a suitable 
phone in private. 
I will keep trying. Is there anything else you want me to do?

Stew de Baker Hawke
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John Kalo wrote:

Dear Stuart,

   What you will do now is to fill the application form below and send it to
this 
our Bank,You should note that immediately you send this application you are 
henceforth representing the next of kin to our deaseaced customer.But Now What 
I want from you is your assurance that you will keep my own share of this fund 
when it finally gets into your account regardless of the fact that we have not 
seen before.You should be very much aware that I am doing this business based 
on the fact that I am putting a lot of trust on you.

  Fill the application form and send it immediately to the Bank for onward 
action.The text of application underneath, you will go through it, copy it 
and  have it neatly typed and sent to the bank. , immediaetely you tender 
this application to the bank, business starts immediately. You should then 
start acting like someone who wishes to have his deceased cousin's fund 
inherited and retransfered into his account as the procedure requires.

The application is as follows;..........,

ATTN: MR. RAZACK PHILLPS.
The Director of Operations
Foreign Remittance Division
International Bank of Africa
Ouagadougou Burkina-faso.
Fax: +226  32 00 49

Email:ibof_africa@email.com.


Dear Sir,

APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF $7.2m (SEVEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED 
UNITED-STATES DOLLARS ONLY)FROM ACCOUNT NUMBER:$286-41732-55.

I, Mr ..(your name), of...........(address)..........humbly applies to 
this 
bank today the .. (date)........as next of kin to your deceased 
customer Mr 
Arthur Billings from America who died on plane crash 31st October 1999

I humbly apply putting claim over his balance with this bank valued at 
USD 
7.2M, left in account  number:$286-41732-55 .

I also wish my application will be given an urgent attention as I wish 
this 
balance be released and  re-transfered into my account as stated below,

BANK NAME: ...........................................
ADDRESS: .............................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER: ......................................
ROUTING NUMBER: .........................(IF AVAILABLE)
SWIFT NUMBER: ...........................(IF AVAILABLE)
BENEFICIARY: .........................................
YOUR PRIVATE FAX NUMBER: ..................................

Please, accept my apologies for this late application as it was due to 
family logistic problems consequent upon his funeral rights which have 
just 
been settled. I hope you will expedite action.
Thanks in anticipation of your coperation.

Yours faithfully,
...............................
Your name and signature.

Go through this application very well,  Make sure it is attentioned to 
Mr Razack Phillips so that it will be given an urgent attention.
Please note this, your swift cooperation is highly needed and once 
again I am very grateful for your assistance to myself in this transaction. The
almighty God will forever bless you more abundantly. As soon as you 
send it, you get back to me immediately. You should be hasten up and send it so
that they will give urgent attention and start processing on it immediately.

Please try and call me as soon as you read this mail on +226 85 19 14, let me
also 
know a brief history about yourself, are you married, how old are you.

Bellow is the profile of MR ARTHUR BILLINGS.(OUR DECEASED CUSTOMER)

 

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

FULL NAME- MR. ARTHUR BILLINGS.

His wife name is Mrs Babara Billings.

NATIONALITY - AMERICAN NATIONAL

AGE : 70YRS OLD.

RELATION SHIP- NEXT OF KIN/ COUSIN.

AMOUNT- US$ 7.2m.(SEVEN MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND
UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY). ACCOUNT NUMBER-
$286-41732-55.

             DATE OF DEATH-31ST OCTOBER 1999
             COMPANY-STE BILLINGS $ BROTHERS SARL
             IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY
             OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.


AIRLINE- EGYPTIAN AIR LINE.

SCENE OF THE ACCIDENT:ONE HOUR AFTER NEW YORK.

AIRCRAFT NUMBER- 990
Please note that this transaction is top secret and  confidential so don't 
discuss it with any body.I am expecting your call.

Regards.

J.Kalo.
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Er John

Are you crazy or what?

No bank is going to believe that load of gumph. 
Who is the idiot that wrote that form  out. 
Geeze they should try going to school for about 10 minutes.

Seriously John, if you expect us to get the money we are going to 
have to do better than that. It is no wonder you need my help in this
matter. 

Here is what you MUST do. If you ever expect to get the money that is.

Send me ALL the details of EVERYTHING you know about this money and it's
history,  EVERYTHING.

I will deal with it from there. Don't worry John I won't cheat you out of your share  
there will be plenty of money to go around. But you seriously need help here. 
Do you  understand what FRAUD is? Do you want to GO TO JAIL. 
That form of yours looks like a  12 year old child's idea of playing "banking". 
GET REAL JOHN.

This is important business, we have to do it properly. So send me ALL the
details  and I will tell YOU what to do next.

Oh yeah, HURRY IT UP.

Stew de Baker Hawke
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Dear Stuart;

   Contacting you for this business should not be a chance of polite 
insult on my kind of person because i found out that you never knew 
who you are dealing with,that is why you are trying to insult me based 
on the fact that I have contacted you for this business,but meanwhile I 
never blame you because it now too late for regret because you have 
already heared about the business that if I should contact somebody 
else it is no longer confidential and secret and that is why I think 
I should continue with you.You must adhere to my own instuctions by 
this transaction.

J.Kalo.
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Dear John. 

First let me just say I was not trying to insult you. 

However it is obvious from your e-mails that English is not your best language.
If it was you would know as well as I that the layout, spelling, grammar etc of
that letter to the bank you asked me to fill out and send simply will not do. 

No banker is going to hand over millions of dollars just like that. 

Please send me more details of the bank itself. You know address phone, 
managers name and I will set up a more official and believable contact for us. 
I will also compose a better letter. But to do it properly I need the details. 
Oh and why does the account number have a dollar sign ($) in front of it? Also 
what is this supposed to mean? 

COMPANY-STE BILLINGS $ BROTHERS SARL 

I will also e-mail the bank 

Stew 

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To the "Bank"
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Hello

My name is Stuart de Baker Hawke. I am an American business man and I 
am looking for information about banks in Africa. You see my cousin 
Arthur Billings was killed in Africa a few years ago and his affairs 
are still a bit up in the air so to speak. Since his wife Barbra died 
I am now the closest living relative. In Arthur's personal effects I 
found a mention of your bank. Could you please check your records and 
see if you have any information regarding this person. 

Regards

Stew de Baker Hawke

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 John Kalo wrote:

Dear Stuart,
I must tell you that I am dissappointed for not getting any response
from you since my mail to you.You shoul be aware that I told you ealier 
that trust is one of the most important things that could make a business 
to suceed,Pls.Send me mail or you call me for us to decide wither you should
just send the application form as it is.or for us to go ahead and secure one
from the ministry.
Yours Brother,
J.Kalo.

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Hi John

Sorry but I have been very busy. I will get on to it.

Stew
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Dear Stuart;

Anything that you are doing please you should no longer waste anytime 
for us to proceed,I do not have your phone numbeer I could have called 
you Since you have not been able to call me.Send it.

J.Kalo.
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(I sent him the number of some other scammer in England.... LOL!!)
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Please call, urgent.

 +44 781 567 5760

Stew
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 John Kalo wrote:

Dear Stuart,

I have been hospitalised as of late,but I have all the same tried  calling
you from the hospital and i always get a man that says that is a wrong number,
I thought you are an american,why UK number

Please,clarify me and let me know what I am doing with you

Regards,

J.Kalo
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Dear Mr Kalo

I sincerely hope that you have been hospitalized well. Perhaps you have some 
horrible, deadly illness from which you will suffer greatly? However I doubt
it.

Now then Stuart (call me Stew) de Baker Hawke is also spelt Studebaker Hawk. 
Which is an American car from the 1960's. Perhaps that is why you thought I 
was American. Did you talk to the person on the phone number I gave you? 
Didn't he know me? That seems odd. 

Anyway why do you ask me to clarify what you are doing with me? Surely you 
know what you are doing with me. Or do you mean what I am doing with you? 
Aren't we both doing the same thing?

Stew
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DEar Stuart,
I do not understand your write up to me, it was clearly contary to the scope of
my former mails to you,You are delaying me,What I meant by you telling me what
we 
are doing is whether you are still ready to go ahead with this or not.
Write me and tell me whether you will be sending the application form as it is.
J.Kalo
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Dear John

It is with great regret that I must inform you that our business cannot
continue.

You see there are just to many opportunities like yours that have been offered
to me. 
At least three lot's of Abachas require my assistance to smuggle boxes of cash 
disguised as photographic materials out of Ghana. Two other bank officers need 
help with dead customers money. Just today a very interesting mail wants me to 
do some work regarding cattle medicine (that should be a good one). There have 
been twenty five in all and I just don't have the time to assist all of them so
I am afraid some must be let by the wayside. You are one of those. Your
approach  and stupid form are amongst the worst efforts to scam money 
out of me, other  scammers are so much more interesting.

I have managed to accumulate quite a bit of information about you 
and of course "Cyril Otoo" who bares a striking resemblance to yourself. 
All the phone numbers  and e-mail details have been forwarded to 
various law enforcement agencies around  the world (F.B.I., Interpol etc).
You would be surprised how much info an e-mail  can contain if you know 
how to read it. Like your ISP Onatel, the fact that you and  "Cyril" 
share the same computer, etc.  Why you even sent me your phone number.
00226 85-19-14.

I can only hope that sometime soon you get what you deserve, a nice long
holiday  in an African jail.

Bye Bye Mugu

Oh yes Stew de Baker Hawke is really spelt Studebaker Hawk, it is a type of 
American car from the 1960's. Not a real name at all.
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