Call me crzay, but I'm willing to be that this amazing letter is a hoax designed to get your bank account number into bad hands. I've gotten similar letters in other incarnations (see pasted letter below) - it's just a way of getting your bank account number into bad hands. Be warned.
Here's one other example:
I got your contact through the World Trade
Organization. (W.T.O) I decided to contact you on a
mutual business relationship.
My name is Mr. Peter Bedie the son of former president
Henri Konan Bedie of cote d� Ivoire who was
unfortunately toppled in a military coup in Dec, 1999
by general Robert Guei. as at when the military junta
struck and overthrew the elected government of my
father, he was forced to go into exile in France while
some of his ministers and close aids ran to other
countries.
When my father was in power, I was working as his
special aid who was coordinating his special
businesses, and was also in charge of all his deposit
account with different financial institutions in
Europe.
Unfortunately for my father the military junta of
former head of states, Gen Robert Guei has frozen all
bank accounts held by my father, his family members
and his cabinet. Furthermore, our private
investigation revealed that the controversial
government of Mr. Laurent Gbagbo who was in the
opposition party when my father was the president of
cote d�Ivoire tends to tow the line of Gen.Guei in
respect to the seizure of my family�s assets and
accounts.
To this effect Mr.Laurent Gbagbo has requested all the
western world to furnish his government with
information that will lead to the discovery of any
bank account held by my father or his aids.
To this, Switzerland has already responded by exposing
many of my family's bank accounts. it is based on
this developments that I have the mandate of my
father to contact you and request you specifically to
assist my family, by helping us to secure this deposit
we have with a financial institution in Europe which
amounts to U.S.$15 million (fifteen million US
dollars). This will make it impossible for the new
Government in power in my country , to have access to
this fund.
It is base on this that I am requesting you to assist
us in putting this sum of money in safe keeping by
accepting to receive it from the financial
institutions on our behalf so that it will not have
any link to my family and for that my country will not
find it.
I will furnish you with details of this transaction if
you accept to assist. For your efforts we will discuss
what percentage I will give you when you reply.
Because, of the urgency this issue requires, you
should reach me immediately on the following email -:
henri_ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do not forget to include your telephone and fax
numbers while replying to this message.
I await your quick response.
Best regards,
Peter Konan Bedie.
Cecil Touchon wrote:
I just got this amazing letter in the ebox...
Subject: Angel Investor Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:38:20 From: "Fatou Sankoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am the wife of detained former Vice President Foday Sankoh of Sierra-Leone and leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). Who is presently in government custody for charges of treason, illegal diamond dealing and alleged killing of 21 people during a public non- peaceful demonstration outside his home in May 2000. President Kabbah's own army, plus the kamajors and the West Side Boys are also there; including the RUF. There was an attempt to unilaterally and forcefully disarm the RUF whilst keeping the other armed factions operational. Indeed this problem of implementing the Lome Accord lies at the root of the present crisis in Sierra Leone. Regrettably, the price is just DIAMONDS, nothing else, but DIAMONDS, and, just as these forces are spilling blood and committing untold atrocities heaping all the vices on scapegoat RUF, the DIAMONDS continue to be melted away, in broad daylight. With a pending war crimes trial hanging on his neck and the adoption of the ratification of the ICC Treaty which is seen as a welcome development by many Sierra Leoneans both at home and in the Diaspora. There is likelihood that my husband would be facing war tribunal about to be set up in Freetown by this hideous government. You are also aware that the government following his incarceration has confiscated all of our assets and account traceable to him and his family both abroad and locally. In view of this development, I have been instructed to dispose the large stock of unpolished diamond that is in my custody and US$20 million of United States Dollars that is in cash and launder this money abroad without any trace to our family's name. My situation is very desperate, as I do not have the know-how on how to maneuver this situation and I am not allowed traveling outside my country. If you can assist me to legitimize these funds by assisting in moving this money and Diamonds outside Sierra Leone and using it for the purpose of investment for an agreed period of time, I am ready and willing to concede some percentage for all your logistics and material involvement. Therefore, contact me immediately, only, if you are able and interested in assisting me. Kindly contact me preferably using my alternative email address at [EMAIL PROTECTED], as soon as possible. Yours faithfully, Mrs. Fatou N. Sankoh E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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