investment / partnership proposal dear sir , i am mr . femi olugbade , a bank executive . i am sending this message to you in confidence . i am asking for your favor in the transfer of some money belonging to one mr barry kelly ( deceased ) whose death we were not aware of until we no longer got reply to our routine notifications to his forwarding address . we were however told by his employers , that he died from an automobile crash . now all attempts to trace his next of kin has proved abortive . there is however no trace in any of his official documents of a next of kin . the basic line here is that at the expiration of 6 years , the money will revert to the ownership of the government . nobody is ever coming to claim this money having spent 5 and a half years in our bank . so all i am asking from you is that you should stand in as his next of kin to avoid the money going into the hands of corrupt government officials . also note that , it is impossible for the money to leave the coffers of the bank without a next of kin , who also must be a foreigner . further workings of this initiative , and a sharing ratio , plus possible areas of investment will be discussed as soon as i hear from you . best regards . femi olugbade