Windfall ***

For years I have often received emails from sundry Africans, telling me that someone has passed on, and left a huge fortune, which needs to be moved out of Burkina Faso or Burundi or some other God-forsaken African country, and my help is indispensable in this noble effort. After several such emails, my excitement waned. It dawned on me that it was too good to be true. These were fraudsters.

But now, my luck is turning. I have received an email from a Dr. Charles Nkrumah, the Safety & Security Minister in charge of the African Union Anti-Fraud Unit. He has mentioned a team from the African Union Anti-Fraud Unit had been working in collaboration with the United Nations (UN) in stemming these evil fraudsters. The team swung into action on the high rate of complaints they had been receiving from United Nations (UN) on the level of scam artists/fraudsters with African nationalities. All the Internet Service Providers had noticed the increased email traffic originating from Africa to other continents.

It warmed my heart to hear that the team had arrested three hundred and six (306) scammers so far and the raid is still on. They have recovered a total sum of US$3.2 Billion from the fraudsters, both cash and assets confirmed to have come from their victims. And as they carried out the raids, they found hundreds of thousands of email addresses of victims from the fraudsters’ address books. This is how they found me.

Now comes the best part. The African Union (AU) with the United Nations (UN) are making refunds of US$750,000.00 each to victims whose email addresses were listed in the scammer's address books. And this includes yours truly.

I have been asked to contact Rev. Alan Fryer( who by the way is from USA, and who was appointed by United Nations). I was also kindly advised not to contact those scammers again.

Watch this space. I will be back once I get the money.