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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: frankmensah001@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:47:47 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=3A=20Mr=2E=20Franklin=20Mensah=2E?=
From: Mr. Franklin Mensah.
Branch Manager,
International Commercial Bank
Takoradi Ghana.
My Good Friend,
How are you doing together with your family? I guessed all is well. My massage
should not be a surprise proposal to you because I got your contact information
from the international directory in few weeks ago before I decided to contact
you on this magnitude and lucrative transaction for our future survival
in life and we can as well go into partnership as I will be going on retirement
as soon as we conclude this transaction.
Moreover, I have laid all the solemn trust in you before I decided to disclose
this successful & confidential transaction to you.
Firstly, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by
virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top Secret, but I
am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day after I gotten
your contact during my search for a reliable person to entrust this huge
transfer project with.
I am the Branch manager of the International Commercial Bank of Ghana Takoradi
in the Western Region of Ghana, married and blessed with Four Daughters.
I only hope we can assist each other, I have packaged a financial transaction
that will benefit both of us. Personally, I am in control of five million,
five hundred and fifty thousand United States Dollars (US$5,500,000:00)
I realized the excess profit from a contract that was awarded to a foreign
company here in Ghana by the World Health organization through my connection
to supply Antenatal and post-natal drugs to all the rural areas in Ghana
and other West African countries.
This said Money for the supply of drugs was first deposited to the Bank
where I work as the manager, I trade with the money in Ghana stock market
before the contractors finally withdrew the money for the said purpose.
I have already submitted an approved the profit report of the year 2007
to my head office in Accra and they will never know of this excess which
no one has knowledge about up to this moment and I have since then, placed
this amount of US 5.5M) on a Sundry Account without a Beneficiary, as an
officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I
am impelled to request your assistance in receiving the funds as the rightful
beneficiary.
I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do
need to stress out that there are practically no risk involved in this.
It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand
as the original depositor of this fund. If you accept this offer, I will
appreciate your timely response.
Note Important Pls. in your reply I urged you send it to my official Email
Account as stated: info-icb-ghana@excite.com
With Regards,
Mr. Franklin M. Mensah
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