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Sunday, 28 September 2008

TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.

FROM THE DESK OF ADAMU ATTAH
THE HEAD OF FILE DEPARTMENT, AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO WEST AFRICA.
TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.st

("remittance of $15.5million u.s.a dollars confidential is the case")

compliments of the season 2008,

i am (adamu attah),head of file department & debt recovering in african development bank ouagadougou burkina-faso in west africa. first, i must solicit your confidence in this transaction.this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.

However after series of petition was recieved by this present regime from foreign contractors and inability of the african development bank (adb)to fulfill their obligation for the payment to its foreign creditors, in conjunction with the council of ministers, they mandated us to carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign contractors and to effect payments immediately.

During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of us$15.5 m (fifteen million five hundred thousand us dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that happened in (monday 31st july 2000).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 guidelines 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 and other officials in my
department 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 disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 50% would be for me, while 10% will be for expenses incure during the transaction. there after i will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated.therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted.

Upon the receipt of your reply, i will send to you by email the text of the application to fill and send to the bank. i will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, i know what to do and move the fund into your account without any delay and thatyou should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for the transfer.
you should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that i will send you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data information of the deceased .

your's faithfully,

adamu attah
from (adb) ouagadougou burkina-faso.

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Saturday, 13 September 2008

Congratulation you have been awarded Â£850,000 from the OXFAM GB - UK the cash/grant donation Promo Contac Dr.Terry Williams. Email (drterrywilliams014@jmail.co.za)

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Friday, 29 August 2008

Can't be bothered to go to Norwich Jam

Nothing would be more boring for me (not the participants of course) as I HATE standing around as it is - but for a whole wkend...................

So Josh & Ellie have scrounged lifts and tent spaces whilst Francis hates me for pulling out!?!?!?

God willing no injuries??

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

Nose

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> A Nice little picture of my nose, very swollen on the right side.

Fwd: Whistler, Diary - Almost Broken Nose

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> Hey Guys
> The diary is interesting today as you may have gathered from the
> subject of the email
> Sunday 6th
> I got up today and headed down to breakfast. Woodsy was coming up
> today, just to ski around as he has hurt his knee, which is unlucky
> considering he is coming to Saas Fee for a month with me after
> Whistler. The weather was really overcast which was annoying; I was
> hoping to get 3rd time lucky with nice weather. But the rest of the
> week is meant to be sunny, which I look forward to. We had a
> different coach today as usual. I went straight back up the mountain
> with one intention, to land the trick I had been trying all day
> yesterday, and I did it 3rd time lucky, was really happy. I also did
> some work on the jumps, and after that headed to lunch. It was quite
> late after lunch so I didn't think it was worth starting to ride
> again, so I headed down. When I got down, I did some stuff on my
> laptop, and then swimming again. Swimming was good, we went for a
> quite a while. I watched some tele after swimming before waiting for
> dinner. Dinner was at a Mexican place, it was good food even though
> I didn't eat it all. After dinner we went to supermarket to get some
> food or the prize for winning poker, and then played poker. At one
> stage I was on the verge of winning but then I lost, so no food for
> me. I then watched American Pie 2 and 3 with woodsy before going to
> bed.
> Monday 7th
> As it was our rest day today, I was lucky enough to sleep in till
> 10. I went straight for breakfast, which wasn't at Merlin's today;
> it was pretty much a full English breakfast, except it wasn't
> English. After breakfast I messed around on my computer on the
> Internet until 1 o'clock where I then headed to paint balling. It
> was so much fun, and in the last game I took down a man with a head
> shoot. Boom!! I was super hot after paint balling so I decided to go
> swimming. We went for dinner after swimming, it was at a place
> called 21, really nice pasta. After dinner I didn't do much for a
> while and then ended up playing a long tactical game of poker before
> going to bed.
> Tuesday 8th
> I woke up to a blue sky without a cloud in sight. I was so happy
> ready for a good day of skiing. So as every other day I went to
> breakfast and then headed up the mountain. I must have spent a good
> hour helping the diggers getting the park in shape and then we were
> split into our groups. We started out by hitting the rails as the
> jump was taken so long to open. But when it did open I got straight
> on it, my first run was really fast and then I took another run on
> the jump and it was much slower. I came short of the knuckle and
> smashed my nose so hard in to my knee. So I chilled out in the
> Salomon tent, where a medic in the tent saw me and she took me to
> the top by skidoo. From there I downloaded down the lifts to the
> bottom> I got to the hotel and Melanie took me to the clinic. When I
> got there the receptionist was really unprofessional, she said I
> would have to have plastic surgery on my nose, and I wouldn't be
> able to fly back on Friday. But when I actually saw the doctor she
> said my nose isn't probably broken, I just need to ice to let the
> swelling down. So I was a little more relieved, I went back to the
> hotel to ice my nose and I plan to go back tomorrow to maybe have an
> x-ray. As Woodsy is injured I went for lunch with him.
> Cheers
> Josh

Monday, 7 July 2008

Fwd: Diary Update

Begin forwarded message:

From: josh birch <josh.birch@googlemail.com>
Date: 7 July 2008 02:10:03 BST
To: Alan Hides <ahides@hsdirect.co.uk>, Ali Hastings <ali.hastings@snozoneuk.com>, Alison Frew <allison@centris.co.uk>, Andy Frew <andyf@centris.co.uk>, Ben Clarke <benclarke@info-point.org.uk>, Berj Tekerian <btekerian@bucksgfl.org.uk>, Bob Roberts <roberts303@lycos.co.uk>, Dad <djxbirch@mac.com>, England Ski Team <escsc1@freestylesnowsports.co.uk>, Francesca Birch <francescabirch@hotmail.co.uk>, Ged Carney <g.carney@btconnect.com>, Graham Moore <graham@graham-moore.com>, Grandad Roberts <chinasolutions.uk@btinternet.com>, Grandpa Birch <birslackgrange@msn.com>, "Great Island (Triple Air Ltd)" <matthew@greatisland.co.uk>, James Golding <jgolding69@hotmail.com>, Jay Earles <jay@lab15.co.uk>, Johanna Guerin <johannaguerin@btinternet.com>, Kay Leggott <kay@ka7la1.demon.co.uk>, Lee HARDY <lee.hardy@scott-sports.uk.com>, Ludo Canu <ludo@unitedsnowriders.co.uk>, Mark Birch <mark.birch@it-consults.demon.co.uk>, Mark Watson <mark.watson@snozoneuk.com>, Martin Carr <martin.carr@freestylesnowsports.co.uk>, Matt D'arcy <hq@lineskis.co.uk>, Melody Sky <melodysky@melodysky.com>, Mike Smith <SKIEKIM@aol.com>, Mum <ccarrington-birch@boden.co.uk>, Ness Webb <ness_webb@yahoo.co.uk>, Rick Hutchings <rick_hutchings03@yahoo.com>, Sally Bartlett <info@skibartlett.com>, sally@skibartlett.com, terispencer@hotmail.co.uk, Uncle Sharpie <patsharples@hotmail.com>, Warren Smith <warrensmith@snowsportsynergy.com>, Webb Paul <paulrwebb@btconnect.com>, "Webb, Paul Richard" <paulrichard.webb@eds.com>
Subject: Diary Update

Hi Guys,
Just another diary update...

Saturday 5th
I got up and did the usual routine of getting breakfast at Merlin's and then heading up the mountain. The weather was really bad today with it raining and being cloudy. We had a different coach today. I started out with hitting the jumps, but the mist came in so we soon couldn't do that. Pretty much the rest of the day I spent trying to do a trick onto the rail, which I still didn't get. It was one of those things that are easy but also hard. I went to lunch later today, and then headed down rather than going to ski more. In the afternoon it was raining, so we stayed in and went swimming. We killed time by chilling out in the hotel room on the Internet checking emails, etc whilst waiting for dinner. We went to the Spaghetti bar for dinner and it was really good. Although I had a migraine so my meal was ruined because I wasn't feeling good. On top of not feeling good, I somehow managed to lose my wallet with $250 in along with my bankcard. I managed to get my bankcard cancelled but haven't got the wallet back. The most annoying thing about losing the wallet was I didn't plan to spend all of the money, so I could have given some back to my dad. I was really annoyed after dinner, but I played poker and then started watching a film before I fell asleep.
Sunday 6th
I got up today and headed down to breakfast. Woodsy was coming up today, just to ski around as he has hurt his knee, which is unlucky considering he is coming to Saas Fee for a month with me after Whistler. The weather was really overcast which was annoying; I was hoping to get 3rd time lucky with nice weather. But the rest of the week is meant to be sunny, which I look forward to. We had a different coach today as usual. I went straight back up the mountain with one intention, to land the trick I had been trying all day yesterday, and I did it 3rd time lucky, was really happy. I also did some work on the jumps, and after that headed to lunch. It was quite late after lunch so I didn't think it was worth starting to ride again, so I headed down. When I got down, I did some stuff on my laptop, and then swimming again.

Hope you like it,
Josh

Fwd: Whistler, Canada - Diary

Josh,

Thought I'd find you a few more to email!!!!

Aunts, Uncles, Godmothers, etc, etc.............

Dad

NB note Matt's new add's and Bob's work email add??