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Man, I am totally sweet. This dude straight up emailed me and I am
totally going to be loaded. Here's his email, but don't bother getting
excited because I am already helping him out.
DEAR FRIEND,
This mail may be a
surprise to you because you did not give me the permission to do so
and neither do you know me but before I tell you about myself I want you to
please forgive me for sending the mail without your permission.
My name is Junior Guei, 30 years old and the son of the late military
ruler of Ivory-Coast ( Retired Brigadier General Robert Guei) who was
killed in a political crisis which led to war in my country(Ivory-Coast).
My father,mother and two junior brothers were killed by some
soldiers believed to be loyal to the government because of my father's
objection to some certain policies of the present government. I was lucky
to have escaped with a brother who is the last child of the family that
night because we were visiting a family friend in another city far away from
our home.
I have to go into hiding with my junior brother for some
days before arrangements were made for us to leave Ivory-Coast for the
Republic of Togo on the invitation of President Eyadema of Togo who granted
us political assylum.
Before we left for Togo,I visited our home where
my mother and my two junior ones were killed in our village and during the
search for some documents in my father's room came accross some
vital documents and the keys to a secret vault in the house.I took the keys
and went down to where the vault is and there I discovered two metal boxes
which were carefully hidden. With the aide of the documents I was able to
open the boxes only to find out that the boxes were full of money
in hundred dollar bills. I could not count the money because I was very
shock to see it and again it is too much for me to count but the documents
that I discovered in his room which led me to the boxes put the money at
$10,000,000:00(ten million dollars). I locked it back carefully
and arranged for the boxes to be moved with me through the help of some
family friends to Abidjan the capital city where I deposited the boxes with
a security company for safe-keeping.I did not declare the content of the
boxe s to the security company,I only declare it as family valuables.
When the African leaders came to Ivory-Coast and President Eyadema
invited us to go to the Republic of Togo where I now live with my junior
one.I cannot leave the money there in Abidjan so I am making arrangements
to move the boxes to Togo where I now live and have the money transfered by
bank abroad. This has been my reason for contacting you.
I would have
given you my telephone number so that you can call me in order to discuss the
issue better but I'm afraid to do so because we have too many people around
us who I would not want to know of the money but I have a laptop with me
all the time and I think it will be better to communicate by Internet
untill we can make proper and solid arrangements about how to move
the money.
I wish to meet with you if you can make a trip to The
Republic of Togo or Ivory-Coast,then we can meet secretly before we go
ahead for the transaction.Never mind about your expenditure it will be
taken care of though I may not be able to send some money to you right now but
I will pay it back if you can do it and not only that,I am ready to offer
30% of the money to you for this assistance.It is not that I am paying you
but for your assistance which I shall really appreciate.
Please I wish that this assistance be treated highly confidential.
Waiting to read your response about the proposal soonest through: jnrguei@zwallet.com
Thanks.
Jnr. Guei.
Here is my reply:
What up dog? I just straight read your email (well I skipped the
middle, but I read most of it.) and I am totally totally interested in helping
your cause or whatever. The money would be sweet, but I am interested in
other continents and stuff too, so it would be total Karma for me to
help.
So how do I start? Can you come visit me instead of me coming to
you?
So what is the problem there anyway? I know there are problems in
my hood too. The other day my moms was all "Did you finish the Corn
Pops?" and I was all, "Yo, why you buggin'?" She don't really understand
me when I talk like that and I feel totally like, repressed on my culture and
sh*t. But she cool, she bought more Corn Pops today.
Ai'ight, well dog. I gotta roll. Let me know where to send
my bankroll.