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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Fw: trust fund

Good luck to you
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From: Venix <xvenisawil@yahoo.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 07:46:17 -0700 (PDT)
To: <Invalid address>
ReplyTo: xvenisawil@yahoo.co.jp
Subject: trust fund

My Dear,



I don't know how my generosity offer may sound to you, especially as it comes from a stranger, I am contacting you through a magazine which I picked here in my hospital sick bed as it's the only chance I had to give my wealth away for Gods Work due to my illness . My name is Ms Venisa william, I married to Mr. William Dramani who was a Cocoa and Gold merchant in Ivory Coast for 21 years before he died on second november 2007, we were married for eleven years without a child, He died after a brief illness that lasted for only four days.


Since his death I decided not to remarry or get a Child outside my matrimonial home, because of my bad stage of health in 2008 , I sold all my inherited properties and belongings and deposited the fund which was amounted to the sum of three million five hundred thousand United State Dollars. ($3.500,000USD) in one of the leading bank here in Ivory Coast . My doctor told me on Monday that I should start looking for whom to will my wealth due to my Cancer and Stroke sickness, he made it clear to me that he is not going to guarantee my life in this surgery.
 

I will like to hand you over this fund and my properties as a donation to establish a medical clinic to help disease affected poor street children who can not afford their medical expenses or to establish a manufacturing company to create job opportunity for jobless people as I cant invest it here in Ivory Coast due to recent bloody political crisis, I want to hand over this fund to you as it was my vow to establish charity project before I leave the world. I took this decision because I don't have any Child that will inherit this fund, and my husband relatives have seized all his investments due to that I don't have a Child.


I don't need any telephone communication in this regard because of my condition and I don't want anybody to know about this project, as soon as you response to this message I will inform the bank for immediate transfer of this fund to your personal bank account for this project, I will offer you 20 percent of the total fund for any expenses that may occur during this charity work, and I want you to always pray for me for my up coming surgery,


Yours Sister,
Ms Venisa.