From: Tony Silas Law Chambers Plot 73, Raymond Njokus Crescent, Victoria Island Lagos-Nigeria. Dear Sir, I do not mean to embarras you by this proposal, but to confide to you a very sensitive issue, of a very pathetic situation, and also to seek your utmost assistance for the issue I am about to explain to you. My name is Tony Silas, and I am the principal consultant of the above mentioned law firm here in Lagos Nigeria. You see, one of my clients, and ofcourse, my most valued client by name Hamza Al-Mustapha just called me and confide a very sensitive issue to me. My client happens to be the then chief security officer {CSO} to the former military dictator, Late General Sani Abacha, who died july 1998 in active service as the then head of state of the federal republic of Nigeria. My client, Al-Mustapha is presently being detained in the prison custody, awaiting trial for charges of acute human right violations, and mismanagement of government fund leveled against him and Mohammed Abacha, son of the late General {His late Chief in Chief}. A first class information has revealed that the duo are likely to face life imprisonment for the charges against them and may be convicted soon. My client Al-Mustapha got this information somehow and called to brief me of a security trunk which he deposited with a trust company here in London before his arrest, and subsequent detention. According to him, the trunk contains the cash sum of US$35,000,000 which the trust company does not know about yet, as the content was declared as family jewelries and security documents. Also according to him, some security application was made on the bills to prevent it from being stolen or spent by another person, until the application is cleared. Now that his chances of being set free from the allegations against him are rare, he called me to assist him to secure the the fund, which of course is the only hope of the family,{His two wives, and seven children}. After much deliberation however, I managed to convince him to endorse a change of beneficiary for the deposited trunk. This will enable the new beneficiary to put an application for withdrawal of the trunk as the new legal beneficiary to the deposited trunk. In the light of this, I decided to contact you to assist us in this transaction since the plan is to have the change of beneficiary done in favour of a foreigner, who also will be our foreign contact and assistance to to claim this money and keep it in a safe account for my client's family. The arrangement is to change the beneficiary of the consignment into your name, forward you with all the necessary deposit documents to this effect and have you contact the trust company for withdrawal of the trunk as the new/legal beneficiary. My client lost almost a hundred million US dollars, frozen in swiss banks and in different personal accounts on the instruction of the present democratic government of the fedral republic of Nigeria. The plan to seek your assistance was informed by a joint decision by the family of my client to invest this money abroad, probably into commercial real estate, at least to shelter their money. You may also have the privilege of brokering the purchase of valuable properties for my client, since they have all agreed to invest the money into commercial real estate as I told you. Having gone through this explanation, and considering the fate of my client and the dependants he is about to leave behind as the sole bread winner of the family, should he not be lucky on this case, I ask a simple question: Should my client suffer for offences allegedly committed by him master?, should even his family be left, abandoned and even refused to be heard, by a government which is prosecuting their sole bread winner for human right violations? To freeze an account of a fulltime house wife who never knew anything in the government, yet they are denied the basic requirements of life, is a crime to humanity, and human rights violation at its peak. Yet my client's family is presently denied of telephone access etc, hence dening them the freedom of communication and association. It is for this reason that I sincerely solicit your utmost assitance to move this fund out of the trust Company and into your care abroad, on behalf of the family for safe keeping, subject to when they are ready to manage the fund. It is also expected that you will represent this family in brokering the purchase of valuable/profitable proprties in your country or the neighbouring, so they can always fall back to these properties when the heat on the family reduces. My client has also resolved to reward you hansomely with 5% of the total amount on the sucessful conclussion of this transaction. I shall also be 100% available to provide you with all the necessary assistance and guidelines you may require in the course of this transaction. I have just entrusted the details of this fund and the fate of this helpless family into your conscience for safe keeping. I also hope to have offerred you a great opportunity to make yourself some good money, I believe I have. Should the above transaction appeal to you therefore, I hereby urge you to mail me your response immediately for further details and immediate commencement of this transaction. You will also be doing us a lot of good to guide this information with immense confidentiality, should this transaction does not appeal to you. Hoping to hear from you soon on this issue. Regards, Tony Silas,ESQ.