Mr. David Ansah of Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana has us$3,580,000.00

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From:     Mr David Ansah. <david_ansah2008@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To:     Mr David Ansah. <david_ansah2008@hotmail.fr>
Subject:     Dear friend,
Date:     Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:38:21 +0200 (06:38 EDT)

Standard Chartered Bank.
Tarkwa branch.

Dear friend,

My name is Mr. David Ansah.

I am the regional manager of Standard Chartered Bank of Ghana tarkwa branch in the eastern region of Ghana . I got your contact when I was searching for an overseas partner to assist me through banker\'s seminar held recently.

I have packaged a financial transaction that will benefit you and I, as the regional manager of the Standard Chartered Bank it is my duty to send in a financial report to my head office in the capital city Accra at the end of each business year. On the course of report and submission of the end of the year (2006) financial activities of my branch to the head office. I discovered that my branch in which I am the head and the manager made an outstanding profit of us$3,580,000.00 (three million five hundred and eighty thousand united states dollars only) which is unaccounted and undeclared and of which the head office is not aware and will never be aware of.

I have placed this funds in what we call escrow call account with no beneficiary.

As the branch manager of this bank I cannot be directly connected to this money, so my aim of contacting you is to assist me receive this money in your bank account and get 30% of the total funds as commission.

There are practically no risks involved, it will be a bank-to-bank transfer, and all I need from you is to stand claim as the original depositor of these funds who made the deposit with my branch so that my head office can order the transfer to your designated bank account.

I will be very glad if you can return to me with urgent dispatch to enable me advise you on the modalities.

I await in anticipation to receive your immediate response.

Regards,
Mr. David Ansah.

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