To: drleftover
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Greetings to you Dear Prospective Partner,
With warm heart I offer my friendship, and I hope this mail meets you in good time. However strange or surprising this contact might seem to you as we have not met personally or had any dealings in the past, I humbly ask that you take due consideration of its importance and the immense benefit it will be to you.
May I properly introduce my humble self to you. I am Dr. Mrs. Luisa Ejercito Estrada, wife of ousted President Joseph Ejercito Estrada of the Philippines. After careful consideration with my children based on our instincts, we have resolved to contact you for your most needed assistance in this manner. I duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of integrity. The confidentiality of my contact with you is of absolute importance due to my present political status as a senator.
You may not be very conversant with proceedings of the political turmoil in my country which led to my husband's depose from power. Expressing this from my point of view may be biased in your opinion, hence you may read the following articles to have your assertion from a neutral point of view.
http://www.angelfire.com/il/saintjareth/erap.html
http://www.time.com/time/asia/magazine/2001/0129/cover1.html
http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/02/13/bc.philippines.loiestrada/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1063976.stm
To the point. The pressure on my family is overwhelming, and we desire to safeguard our future through investments in commercial and residential properties abroad as well as profitable ventures. Hence my proposal to you to render us your most needed assistance in this regard.
The fund to be invested is in currently in a safety deposit trunk with a private security firm in Europe lodged in my name. The trunk is stocked with hard currency (US Dollars) totalling $18,500,000. Due to the embarrassing surveillance on my family's activities, the need to contact a capable and trustworthy foreigner without a trace to our family handle this investment arose, and we hope we have found such a person in you.
If you are willing and able to render us your most needed assistance, your role in this project will be to act on my behalf as a trustee to receive the safety deposit containing the funds from the Security firm and proceed with the investments on our behalf immediately.
I want to assure you that this transaction is completely safe and risk free. The reason for having a cash safety deposit was a fallback plan of my family, as we envisaged this situation we are in today. At the moment, all my husband's accounts have been frozen, and mine under investigation.
At this point, I want to reemphasise the need for utmost confidentiality and secrecy for the safety of this transaction and our investments you will be handling.
For your reliable assistance, we are offering you 15 %($2,775,000) of the funds.
I thank you in advance as we anticipate your assistance in enabling us achieve this goal. On hearing from you, my son will be contacting you further for a mutual conclusion of the transaction. As you may understand, due to the possibility of bugging, it is not safe to communicate with me or my children via phone or fax. This is why I have communicated with you with my private email address, and I like us to keep this way, for the safety of this transaction, until we meet in the near future.
Please contact me whether or not you are interested in assisting us. This will enable us make alternative plans, in the event of non-interest on your part.
With warm regards,
Dr. Mrs. L. Estrada.