from Rick Thomas (fundsettlements01@aol.com)
reply-to fundsettlements01@aol.com
subject: From Rick Thomas (Hedge Fund Manager)

Attention: Sir/Madam

I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet. Though, this medium (Internet) has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of communication. However this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such. Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax or Scam mail and I urge you to treat it with the seriousness it deserves. I also guarantee you that this business is hitch free from all what you may think of.

I am Rick Thomas, 44 yrs, male, divorced and the Audit Manager of a hedge fund company in North America. My office monitors and controls all foreign contract settlements. I am the final signatory to all payment files for the remittance of huge funds moving on the international level. I have before me an over-invoiced sum of US$10.5 million USD in a ghost file. On this note, I wish to have a deal with you as regards to this unpaid funds as I have the file before me and the data is correct as it is my duty to recommend the transfer of the surplus funds to my Hedge Fund Company as excess. But I just received an instruction by the board of directors to submit the audited report of payment files in my custody.

AGREEMENT:

1) I will declare you as the bonafide owner of the fund send your info to the bank where the fund is lodged. After which you have received the fund I will then fly down to your country for my share and we see how we can both invest in your country.

2) This business must be kept secret forever, and all correspondence will be strictly by EMAIL ONLY for security reasons because my phone calls could be monitored wherever and whenever.

3) There should be no third parties as most problems associated with foreign fund release are caused by third party individuals.

If you AGREE with me, I want you to send to me YOUR NAME, AGE AND COUNTRY ONLY. Immediately I will fix your name and send to the bank where the fund is lodged. And the bank will transfer this fund to you within 7 days of your account submission to the bank.

I hope you do not reject this offer so we can receive this fund and smile together.

Waiting for your reply soon. Thank you

Yours Faithfully,

Rick Thomas
Audit Manager