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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Richard=20Koffi?= <richardkoffi_23@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:06:54 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: From Mr Richard Koffi
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: richardkoffi_23@yahoo.co.uk
Dearest,
I am Mr Richard Koffi,a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the
Foreign Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I am
writing thisletter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out
this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of US$10,700,000 (Ten Million Seven
Hundred thousand U.S Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreigncustomers Late Mr.Choi Soohyun a customer who perished in a plane
crash[Korean Air Flight 801] with the whole passengers aboard on
August6,1997.Please confirm below,
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9708/06/guam.passenger.list/
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to
come over and put claims for his money as the heir,because we cannot
release the fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the
next-of-kin to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately, neither
their family member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claim the
said fund.
It is in our banking guideline that if none of the relatives come up to
claim this fund after 9years of the death of the late customer,the fund
will be regarded as an unclaimed bill and will be transferred to the
bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed
to make business with you and release the total amount into your
account as the heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he
maintained account with our bank,otherwise the fund will be returned to
the banks treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;30 %
for youas foreign partner,65 % for us the officials in my department and
5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us
and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my
colleagueswill come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65% we
intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:
1)Your private telephone and fax number
2.Your full name
Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you and give you the
mordalities for the bank to approve you as the next of kin.
Note also, this transaction must be kept confidential because of its
nature.I look forward to receiving your prompt response.Please get back
to me at my private email at:richardkoffi01@excite.com
Best Regards
Mr Richard Koffi
- Richard Koffi
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