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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "kofi collins" <kcollins25-245@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: k_collins245@aeiou.pt
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 00:29:08 -0500
Subject: Business Assosciate
FROM THE DESK OF DR KOFI COLLINS
CHAIRMAN ECOWAS CONTRACT AWARDING
COMMITTEE ECOWAS FUND HEADQUARTERS
P.M.B.5028 ACCRA-REPUBLIC OF GHANA
EMAIL: k_collins245@aeiou.pt
ACCOUNT PROVISION FOR USD45.5MILLION
I am Dr. Kofi Collins. The chairman, Contract-Awarding Committee of the
Economic Community of West African states (ECOWAS) with its fund
headquarters in Accra Ghana. I got your information in a professional
database when I was searching through Internet for a reliable, honest and
trustworthy person to entrust this business with. I was simply inspired and
motivated to pick your contact from the many names in the list of the
directory. After discussing my view and your profile with my colleagues,
they were very much satisfied and decided to contact you immediately for
this mutual business relationship. We wish to transfer the sum of USD45,
500,000.00 (FORTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS
ONLY.) Into your personal or company's bank account. This fund was a residue
of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us intentionally for the
supply of hard/soft wares, pharmaceuticals/ medical items, light and heavy
duty vehicles, apparels and other administrative/logistics for the ECOMOG in
Sierra-Leone and Liberia during the peace keeping projects.
This deal was deliberately hatched out and carefully protected with the
cooperation and mandate of the financial director and the secretary of the
organization. We arranged and over invoiced the contract funds supplied by
different companies from different countries during the crisis. It was our
consensus to seek the assistance of a willing foreigner to provide us with
the facilities to transfer this money out of West Africa. This is borne out
of our belief in the non-stable and porous political nature of this
sub-region. The original contractors have been duly paid by ECOWAS banker
through the central bank of Ghana and finance ministry. The balance is
suspended in the ECOWAS grand account awaiting claims by any foreign partner
of our choice to receive the fund on our behalf now ECOWAS is intending to
pay all their outstanding balance of their contractors this year as the
organization is winding up its activities since the aim of returning peace
to the countries and the coast has been achieved. Based on the laws and
ethics of employment, we as civil servants working under this organization,
are not allowed to operate/own a foreign account. This is more reason why we
needed your urgent assistance to provide an account that can sustain this
fund for safe keeping and our future investment with your comprehensive
advice, assistance and partnership in your country. It is however agreed, as
the account owner in this deal to allow you 30% of the entire sum as
compensation, 65% will be held on trust for us while 5% will be used to
defray any incidental charges and cost during the course of the transaction.
This transaction will be successfully concluded within 14 days if you accord
us your unalloyed and due cooperation. You should provide the followings for
immediate kickoff of this deal if it interests you; your company's names
with complete address, tel. and fax numbers. (If available) the NAME OF YOUR
BANK, ITS ADDRESS WITH TEL.,FAX AND TELEX NUMBERS, THE ACCOUNT NUMBER THE
COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF THE BENEFICIARY WITH TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.
Upon the receipt of this information, application for claim will be sent to
you to fill and return back to the organization in pursuit of the claim
legally and then be forwarded to the organization for ratification and
subsequent payment. As with the case of all organized (sensitive) and
conspired deals, we solicit for your unreserved confidentiality and utmost
secret in this business. We hope to retire peacefully and lead honorable
business life afterwards. There are no risks involved. Kindly expedite
action if you are interested as we are behind schedule to enable us utilize
this golden opportunity pay out this fund immediately which we might stand
to loose, if we fail to provide a safe account for this transfer on time at
the expiration of this year ECOWAS has mapped out for payment of all their
outstanding contractors and the dissolution of our committee. Please urgency
is needed as we do not
know the time our organization will start the payment hence it is necessary
to start on time to forestall any hitch while transferring the fund into
your designated account.
Hoping to hear from you.
Best regards.
Dr. Kofi Collins
_________________________________________________________________
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