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From: "barristerkoffu_m" <barristerkoffu_m@canada.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 10:53:54 -0800
Subject: URGENT REPLY.
FROM THE DESK OF BARRISTER
KOFFU MENSAH PRINCIPAL
PARTNER,KOFFU MENSAH & CO.
#5,DANQUA OSSU CRESCENT,
ACCRA GHANA.
Dear Sir/Madam ,
I am Barrister Koffu Mensah,Personal Attorney to the late
Mr Patrick D.I,A foreign construction engineer who was
resident here in Ghana.My client died with his family while
on Vacation at Phuket Island in Thailand in December
2004.Asia Earth Quake disaster(TSUNAMI DISASTER)
<http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2004> /tsunami.
Disaster/ On the 6th of January 2005,I recieved a phone call
as his personal Attorney which broke the tragic news of my
clients death in the Tsunami disaster.Since then I have made
several enquiries to locate any of his extended
relatives.This has proved unsuccessful.
After several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his
relatives
over the internet hence I contacted you.
I seek your consent and assistance in repartriating money
left behind by my late client before it gets confiscated or
declared unserviceable by the bank where the deposit is
lodged.The deposit is valued US$9,500,000.00 (Nine
Million,Five Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States
Dollars only) and it is lodged with Standard Trust Bank
[S.T.B]
The bank has issued me an ultimatum to present a next-of-kin
of the
deceased to inherit the funds or have the account declared
serviceable two weeks ago.The board of directors of his bank
adopted a resolution and I was mandated to provide his next
of kin for the payment of this money within 28 working days
or forfeit the money to the bank as an abandoned property.
The bankers had planned to invoke the abandoned property
decree of 1996 to confiscate the funds after the expiration
of the period given to me.
I hereby seek your consent to present you to the bank as
next-of-kin of the deceased, so that the proceeds of this
account valued
US$9,500,000.00 can be transferred to you as inheritance,
and thereafter you and me will share the money; 50% to me
and 45% to you, while 5% will be donated to the Tsunami
Disaster Charity Fund.
I have necessary legal documents that will be used to
support claim of
the inheritance from the bank. All I require is your honest
co-operation to enable us see the transaction through. I
guarantee that the transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach
of the law.
To commence the process of claiming the funds, I will
require the
following information from you,
1.Your Full names.
2.Your Telephone and fax numbers.
3.Your Date of birth.
4.Your Occupation.
As soon as I recieve these information I will file-in a
formal
application to the bank for the inheritance in your name as
next-of-kin of the deceased.
That will enable the bank to process the transaction with
you as beneficiary and remit the funds in your name as
(Inheritor).
Thank you.
Yours faithfully,
Barrister KOFFU
MENSAH.
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