Dear Sir,
I deem it necessary to contact you in this urgent and important matter, and I am sending this proposal to you based on my regard for your credibility. I have gone through your profile and I consider you to capable enough to handle this business with me.
Actually, I was supposed to send this letter to you through a Courier Company, but for safety reasons and limited time, I decided to contact you by email. I work with ECO Bank Ghana and I am the account officer to a special account belonging to an influential, powerful and prominent man who is well known all over the world, but unfortunately he has pass on now. For security reasons, I will not like to mention his name, but I will disclose it to you if I get your assurance and confidence in this proposal, and then I will send a scan copy of my international passport to you, so that you will be sure of the person contacting you.
This very account was opened under a special arrangement during the crisis in Libya, and the man in question used the name of his son to open the account with us. This very family is facing serious problem now and his son who is the beneficiary to the account has already been murdered.
Going by the rules and regulation of our bank, if our Board of Directors should know that this fix deposit belongs to a member of this family, they will close the account immediately and disburse the funds within themselves. So, I have been the one covering up in this matter and if I don’t move this fund as soon as possible, our management will soon know about it, especially when they start their yearly auditing.
So, I am contacting you based on what happened on the 20th of October, 2011 and I need your understanding and full cooperation in this urgent matter, which will enable me transfer the fund from our bank here to you as the beneficiary. The amount involved is US$360M, and you will take half of the total amount and keep the remaining half for me. That is the deal.
If you are willing to finalize this transaction with me, please reply immediately, so that we can conclude on the arrangement.
Warm regards,
Mr Johnson Kofi