The Mayor Is about To Be Rich--Part 1

I don't want you people to be jealous, but I have to tell you about an opportunity that just popped up out of nowhere. A few weeks ago I received an email from a gentleman from the Ivory Coast. I'll let his email tell the story, but suffice to say, I am in line to make me a sweet couple of million within the next few weeks.

My business partner and I have been emailing back and forth, and I am going to share with you all of our correspondence. This is part 1, out of about 10, so far.

My name is Mr Eric Peter,

I work with one of the Banks here in abidjan cote d' lvoire. I am the personal accounts manager to one Engr. Norman.R.Frank , a National of U.S.A from new york, who owned a construction company here in Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire)norman construction company my client, his wife, and their three children were involved in the ill fated Kenya Airways crash in the coasts of Abidjan in January 2001 in which all passengers on board died.Since the death of my customer, I have made
several inquiries to his embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives but has been unsuccessful. After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to contact you this huge deposit with our bank here in, where the deceased has an account valued at about US$5 million United States dollars. Being the personal a/c manager of the deceased's bank account, the bank has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin/beneficiary or else the bank will declear the account unserviceable and thereby forfeit the funds to the bank treasury. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over the past 2 years now,I hereby seek your consent (with due respect and honour) to present you as the next of kin to the deceased so that the
proceeds of this account can be paid to you and then you and I will share the money 50 / 50.All .I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal throw However, I urgently need you the following information from you which I have to place in the computer file of the deceased as next of kin/beneficiary:
(A) your full name,
(B) your date of birth
(C) resident address together with your telephone and fax for easy communication
I guarantee that this will be executed under all legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law. Need you be interest, kindly reach me via my private email as indicated above for further details. Thanks in advance as I anticipate your maximum o-operation in this regards. waiting your mail.
Mr Eric Peter

And here is my response:

Eric,

Your email comes as quite a surprise to me, I hope I am the only person you have contacted about this tremendous opportunity. 2.5 million dollars is nothing to sneeze at, and I say that while I am in fact, sneezing.

My name is Imperial Esso and I was born on a cold wintry night in Canada, August 14, 1962.

Let's proceed with this. In the words of my tribal elders, let's git 'er dun!

Imperial Esso

Tune in tomorrow for another exciting episode of "The Mayor is About To Be Rich."