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From: "James" <j_graham010@excite.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 23:37:29 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Attn. My Dear Alex Elbertsen ,
I am the manager bill and exchange of the foriegn remittance department of Eco Bank Ghana (ECO BANK GH).I have a proposal to discuss with you, these however is not mandatory nor will i compell you to act against your will.I am writing following the impressive information about your profile through the website your capability and reliability to champion this opportunity.In my department here in this bank exist a dormant account for the past 5 years which belong to an American national who is now late Mr.John Mecaslin Harrison , who died in the Singapore Airlines Flight SQ006) on Wed, 01 Nov 2000 confirmable in the below website (http://www.malaysia.net/lists/sangkancil/2000-11/msg00014.html. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his moneybecause we cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we
learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the money.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 the late customer of our bank Mr.John Mecaslin Harrison, was an american national , as nobody is coming for it and we don t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after some years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for aforeigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the late customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction and 75 % would be for me and my colleagues.Thereafter I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages 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 private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to yournotice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. I decided to contact you as you have products of interest in your
part of the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid people's awareness as we are civil servants.We can conclude this operation within ten banking days. Please keep this very confidential. Contact me on my private phone number 00233-246-192810 for more information all confirmable before you apply if you want.May God be with you. Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed information which are confirmable before you can make up your mind to apply.Please reply to my online email:j_graham010@mail.com.Peace and love always.Dr.Lawrence Terry.Tel:00233-246-192810
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