From: Jamil Troure <jamil_troure88@hotmail.com>
To: sean <sean@conman.org>
Subject: Urgent Response Needed
Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 17:55:00 -0400 (EDT)
> Goodday Sir/Madam,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity that will be beneficial to both you and me. It involves transferring to your overseas account the sum of ($7.5;US (United States) Dollars) **Seven Thousand, Five Hundred Dollars** [emphasis added], from one of the Fidelity Finance & Security Company here in Dakar-Senegal.
I am Jamil A. Troure the Auditor General in the Fidelity finance & Security Company here in Dakar Senegal west Africa, During the course of our auditing , I discovered a floating fund in an account opened since 1982 and till date no body has operated or filed papers to claim the fund.
After going through the records I discovered that the owner of the account, Engr. Mahmoud Al-Salem Shafiq an Iraqi oil merchant, died in the month of October 2005 in an auto crash. Since there was not infomation concerning additional members of his family, next of kin or known relation, the fund has been declared floating and if nobody comes forward for it, will be forfeited to the government.
Since I hardly know any foreigner,I am only contacting you as a foreigner to stand and apply as his next of kin because this money can not be approved to a local person here as his next of kin.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced of your capability and assurance that you will never never let me down.
At the conclussion of this project ,we may proceed into an investment as equal partners with you in charge, pending my resignation from the company, but method of sharing profit should be based on 15% for you and rest for me and my colleague.
Regarding moral justification of the fund ,i wouldn't want you to consider it sinful. If you had being the victim ,Certainly you wouldn't be happy having your hard earned fund shared among government as an unclaimed deposit I believe they are many other aspects of life we may contribute with this fund to help the less priveledged and the needy in our society .
Furnish me with your direct telephone & Fax number for easy comminucation and please reply to me on this emails:
jamil_troure88@yahoo.com > jamil_troure@she.com
I look forward to your earliest response.
Jamil A. Troure
Man, they must have run out of money in Nigeria because this is the lowest amount I've ever seen in a 419 scam [1]—only **7½ thounsand dollars?** I'm supposed to be tempted to help someone gain illicit funds for only $1,125?