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January 19, 2006

We are rich!

Update 1/23: Latest correspondence posted below

You already knew that. But more specifically, we recently received an email straight from the desk of a Mr Suleman Muhamede with the Bank of Africa.

Mr. Muhamede has discovered $33,500,000 of "abandoned" money from one of their foreign clients who tragically died recently. He has no next of kin. Mr. Muhamede has decided that it would be bad for this money to go unclaimed, since it would only revert to the government treasury. So he has wisely chosen us, The Playaz, to assist him in laundering this money in the States for a cut. It is all legal, he assures us. Plus he is with the Bank of Africa, which is the bank for the entire continent of Africa, so you know it must be legit.

Below is the email exchange between me and Mr. Muhamede, starting with the intial contact I received and my replies following:

suleman muhamede (muhamede07@hotmail.com) wrote: From the Desk Of: Mr Suleman Muhamede, Bank of Africa.Burkina faso.

ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM

I REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION
I am the manager at the auditing and accounting department of Bank Of Africa
(B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$33.5.m dollars ( US dollars) in an account that belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died along with his entire family in Monday, 31 July, 2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other to swallow
the money at the end of the day,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent isbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after fours years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would be for me.

Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that i will send to you,so i will ike you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of the application . I will not fail to bring to your
notice this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.

You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.

°1)Dear p/s reply this mail.
°2)your tele number...........
°3)your fax number...........
°4)your photo................with your age......

WHEN YOU DO THIS I WILL FORWARD YOU A FORM THAT YOU WILL FILL
AND SEND IT TO BANK.

Yours Faithfully,
Mr Suleman Muhamede,
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)

Mr. Muhamede,

This is exactly the type of transaction we are interested in.

My company is Playaz, Inc. We are businessmen. We will take your $33.5 million dollars. However, you do not fully understand the Playaz Business model. We deposit your millions in our multiple off-shore accounts. In return we will give you a crisp $100 bill for entrusting us with your money. We will spend it wisely, I assure you.

Please send us the money as soon as possible.

Thank you for your kind offer. Our personal information is all online.

Sincerely,
Phil & The Playaz

Suleman Muhamede wrote: Dear Phil, Thanks for your willingness to assist me in this transaction.I want to assure you that this business is 100% risk free.I give you my words and we are going to conclude this transaction in Good Faith and share the fund peacefully.You don't have to be worried because I will ensure that this fund is transfered into your account without having any problem.What you have to do is to listen to my guide line untill the fund is transferred into your account then I will come over for the disbursment of the fund according to the percentages I indicate in my first letter.30% for you,60% for me and 10% for any expenses you and I may incure....telepone bills and taxes your bank will request when the fund is transfered.For your information I got your email address from an internet when I am looking for a reliable person I will do this business with though I did not know much of you.I strongly beleive that we will work together as partners and get this fund transfered into your account peacefully.Y ou have to undrstand now that don't have much time now so we have to be fast in any thing we are doing to be get intoch to bank informed. May looking at the whole transfer process it might look so difficult to achieve a sucessful result but I tell you that it is not as difficult as you might see it.There will not be any risk or problem after this fund is transfered into your account because i will delete all the files concerning the deceased in our bank after the fund is transferred.This business is involve only you and I.I want to assure you that this business will not cause any kind of problem to you because we are going to do it legally.When this fund is transfered there will be some cover up document's my bank will issue you to show your bank that this fund is legally acquired.I tend to invest some part of this fund in hotel business and also import some agricultural machine's back to Burkina-faso which I will use to set up mechanised farming.We can join together to set up all this investment if you wish but if it is not ok by you then you have to collect your own share and do any thing you want to do with it.This business will take us about 14 working days to mature.You have to give me the benefit of the doubt and give me all the surpport I need in this business and I assure you that we will all smile at the end of the day. Mr Suleman Muhamede. Bellow is the application for the transfer. ========================================================================================================================== ATTN: Dr Adama Compaore The Director of Operations Foreign Remittance Division Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina-faso. EMAIL:bankofafricaa@excite.com

Dear Sir,
APPLICATION FOR THE TRANSFER OF US$33.5 Million US dollars FROM DORMANT ACCOUNT NUMBER:$286-41732-55.
Please be inform that I wish to transfer the sum of US$33.5 Million US dollars from Account number $286-41732-55 to a new account as will be detailed below:

BANK NAME: ...........................................
ADDRESS: .............................................
ACCOUNT NUMBER: ................................
BENEFICIARY: .........................................
YOUR PRIVATE FAX NUMBER / YOUR EMAIL
ADDRESS: .........................................
AGE....................................................
This is the money left behind in your Bank by my deceased cousin Mr.Kurt Kahle who died in a Plane crash on Monday, 31 July 2000. He was an Australian national, but resided in Ouagadougou Burkina-faso and owned :

STE BILLINGS SARL
IMPORT AND EXPORT COMPANY,
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO.

I am his cousin and named next of kin. I wish as the heir apparent to claim and instruct that the above mentioned amount be transferred into my nominated account as shown above.
Please,accept this late application as it was due to family logistic
problems consequent upon his funeral rights. I hope you will expedite action.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours faithfully,

Mr. Muhamede,

Believe me, you have found the most reliable person on teh internets.

Please allow me to restate our business model: You give us the $33.5 million dollars (we prefer it be delivered in cash, for tax purposes). In return you will receive a newly minted, crisp $100 bill for your trust in the Playaz. "Is this a fair deal?" you ask? Yes!

Here is how you benefit: By delivering us this "found" money, you will supply the Playaz with the funds necessary to continue to entertain you, the entire continent of Africa, and the world. We cannot operate our jets, buy our drugs, our gold medallions, our minks, our Red Lobster dinners, without the generosity of investors like you. You stand to gain by allowing yourself to become one of our investors. Your return will be almost sure wealth as the people you encounter through your future endeavors will most assuredly be impressed by your connection with the Playaz. This will open many doors for you. And don't forget the $100 bill we promised! It will be mailed to you post-haste, after we have received this glorious bounty you are so graciously giving to us.

We will need you to mail the money, in a large box or container of some sort, and mark it "books", or "cheese" or something that won't garner attention. Put the return address from my uncle who lives in Minnesota (I will provide to you upon confirmation). When you mail it, wear a purple bandana and a red izod cardigan and call yourself "Steve".

Also, we have come into a large amount of Comet Dust, from outer space. We are looking for a reliable individual to deliver a large amount of this dust for the purposes of resale. We believe it to be illegal here in the States, but feel that there are no adequate Comet Dust laws in Africa, and would provide a loophole in allowing us to sell it there and for a hefty profit. We would like to deliver to you roughly 100 kilos of comet dust. We will discuss it's street value once you have received it. Then, once you sell it, you will provide us access to the money for retrieval, and in return we will give you a crisp $100 bill.

If this arrangement sounds good to you, we are ready to go!

thanks,
Phil & The Playaz

Suleman Muhamede (su_mu001@yahoo.com) wrote:
I don't understand you my dear.

OK, forget all that. This might make more sense to you, as our model can be confusing.

First we sell my father's suburban. Then we turn around and buy a bass boat. We take the bass boat out to California and sell it (bass boats in California will sell for nearly double what they will here), turn around and buy a load of "Hula Poppers" (perhaps the best fishing lure on the market), turn around and buy more bass boats, sell those and then buy a Lear jet.

Let me know and we'll get started. Our information is online at www.playazball.com.

Sincerely,
Phil

Suleman Muhamede (su_mu001@yahoo.com) wrote: i don't understand all your saying thanks bye

So we'll just wait to hear from you, then.

Suleman Muhamede (su_mu001@yahoo.com) wrote: I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT

So it's all settled then.

Mr. Muhamede has since closed his Yahoo! email account. I assume further correspondence will be through the "Bank of Africa"'s Excite.com email account.

Posted by Phil at January 19, 2006 6:01 PM