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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: Mr Peter Ata Peprah <ppata01@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: atapeprah1960@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:23:37 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS FOR INVESTMENT
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: ppata01@yahoo.com
- Good day to you.And Compliments of day, this mail may be a surprise to you because you did not give me the permission to do so and neither do you know me but before I tell you about myself I want you to please forgive me for sending this mail without your permission. I am Mr. Peter Ata Peprah, The regional manager of my bank, HFC bank Ghana, Takoradi branch, in western region of Ghana.With due respect and regard, I have decided to contact you on a Business Transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us and our families in future. I am a Ghanaian married with three kids. I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of $15,500.000.00 U.S Dollars. This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the 2007 financial year. I have already submitted annual report for that year to my head office here in Accra as I have watched with keen interest as they will never know of this excess.I have since, placed this amount of $15!
,500.000.00 U.S Dollars on an Escrow Coded account without a beneficiary (Anonymous) to avoid trace. As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account on my behalf.Although personally, I kept this information secret within myself to enable the whole plans and idea be profitable and successful during the time of execution. I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 65% would be for me. I do need to stress 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 so that the fund can be transferred to your account.If you accept this offer, I will appreciate your timely response to me. Because the banking law and gu!
ideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Si
x years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. This is why and only reason I contacted you, I am willing to invest the fund into your company with your wealth of experience, So please if you are interested to assist on this venture kindly contact me back for a brief discussion on how to proceed .Please send your response through my alternative email addresses below for security measures atapeprah1960@yahoo.com.hk or Call me on my private number +233-206235704.WITH REGARD Mr.Peter Ata Peprah.
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