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I get email that i will receive 10 million dollars if i assist in fund transfer. Real or fake?

• ATTN: CONFIDENTIAL PROPOSAL First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. I am a distant relative of Obama. Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day since I am Obama's distant relative. We have decided to contract you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions of this nature . Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am DR.SALIM ABUBAKR, a director with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Lagos. I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person to handle this confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. THE PROPOSITION: A foreigner, late Engineer Mohammed Bin Obama, an Oil Merchant / contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Union Bank Plc. Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD$38.5M (Thirty Eight Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects it to be claimed by any available foreign next - of - kin of the late beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch with any of his family or relatives but proved to avail. It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of late Engr. Mohammed Obama ’s (he had no known wife and children) that the management under the influence of our Chairman and member of the board of directors, retired Major General Barack Uke Kalu, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared “UNCLAIMABLE” and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world in general. In order to avert this negative development, some of my trusted colleagues and i now seek your permission to have you stand as a next - of - kin to late Engr. Mohammed Obama so that the funds USD$38.5M would be released and paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next - of - kin. All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement. Your share stays while the rest would be for myself and my colleagues for investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account. 1,30% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the funds. 2,10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer. 3,60% to us the originators of the transaction. If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of the trust we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately via Tel # 234 - 1 - 7761494 or Fax # 234 - 1 - 7590801 furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive bank particulars so that I can use these information to apply for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favour Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation. Yours faithfully, DR. SALIM ABUBAKR Director (UNION BANK PLC.) N.B. PLEASE, FOR CONFIDENTIAL REASON, I WOULD LIKE YOU TO SEND YOUR REPLY TO MY CONFIDENTIAL FAX NUMBER: Fax # 234 - 1 -7590801 ONLY.

• Answer:

  Fake