The Life and Times of 4 Schlabachs

late september

Lincoln

Darwin

An email I received:

FROM CHAMBER OF BARRISTER PAUL EMEKA
Suite 12 , 5th Floor, Bar Beach Towers
V/Island-Lagos Nigeria – West Africa

Dear Sir,/Madam

Urgent business proposal

Compliments of the day and how are you doing today?

My Name is Barrister Paul Emeka of the above address and personal
Attorney to one late Mr. Peter Craig a national of your country, he
died on his way to a seminar in auto crash on the 10th day of October 2005. My
late client was the Chief Executive officer of {African development
Oil Company} for 25 years and he was retired on the 30th day of September 2005.

He was re-contracted as a petroleum consultant to the company before
this unfortunately incident occurred on the above date just after a
month. He left all his credentials with my chamber for the drafting of
his new contract agreement that will bind his new contract with African
Development Company.

Before his death my client made a numbered time (fixed) deposit for
twelve calendar months valued at US$7.5M with the International Trust
bank of Nigeria plc with open beneficiary and No one will ever come forward
to claim this fund since his sudden death and according to Nigerian
banking law the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian
government if the account owner is certified dead and nobody comes
forward to claim it after five years.

So far the bank has just written my chamber a routine notification to
provide the next of kin of my late Peter Craig or have the account
confiscated within the next ten official working days. This situation
is presently giving me a serious concern as to what I should do to
safeguard this ($7.5m) from the bank rules.

I want to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since I
don??™t want the government to confiscate this fund, we will
share the USD$7.5million dollars on 50% 50% basis ones we are through ok. Please I want
to urge you to view this mail with every sense of responsibility of
purpose and treat your response with dispatch.

Kindly reply on receipt of this mail through my private email address
indicated herein (barrpaulemeka@hotmail.com) Upon your acceptance to
assist me in this transaction, you should include your direct contact
phone numbers where I can open communications with you.

Thanks for your anticipated response.

Barrister Paul Emeka.

Lincoln and Darwin share a bicentennial this year. February 14th is their birthday; so please prepare for all Darwin, all the time.  Sometimes Lincoln is thrown in as a foil to the fawning, saccharine, adulation of the story.  As in Smithsonian’s article comparing… Lincoln emancipating slaves; Darwin emancipating minds.  Last quotes of one of their stories… “Darwin didn’t know 99 percent of what we know, but the 1 percent he did know was the most important part.”

I would like the God I believe in to know more than 1 percent.