Mr. Kelvin R. Edward or Mr. Denzel Appiah has US$5,500,000.00 lodged in an account somewhere

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From:     kre@all4rams.com
Subject:     From: Mr. Kelvin .R.Edward,
Date:     Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:21:33 -0400

From: Mr. Kelvin .R.Edward,

How are you doing? I am Mr. Denzel Appiah, A private stock broker. I wish to inform you that I am willing to enter into a joint investment business with you or you investing for me in your country for a period of 2 years under your control after the transfer of funds out from here to your nominated bank account.

I will be happy if the funds will be invested into a very lucrative business in your country where your government will not take much tax from my principal/capital sum. You can invest in the same area of business you are into or in different business sector (But not stock market exchange or banking/company shares)
However, I want you to know that all formalities have been put in place pending the confirmation of your particulars, signing of agreement and completing the transfer formalities of moving the funds out from here to your bank account, which I am 100% sure that it will not take us more than seven official working days to conclude.

I want you to know that this project is 100% risk free although we diverted the funds from the over tune of government contract and proposal to buy 312 Toyota 4X4 Land Cruiser Armored Vehicles for the various ministries in Ghana.
I convinced my friend to trade with the money in the stock market which i personally handled myself. The dividend has accrued before withdrawing the principal sum for the purchase of the vehicles.
Now, the total of US$5,500,000.00 is lodged in an account somewhere waiting to be assigned to a beneficiary and once I have your full details, I will complete the database formalities and your details will appear as the new beneficiary to the funds, since it is in open beneficiary at the moment.
Please, get back to me as soon as possible with the requested details above so that we can conclude this project as soon as possible and I am hoping to hear from you shortly,
Please, provide me the following:
1. Full Name
2. full office and residential address
3. Your Telephone Number
4. your working status
5. your age
6. your marrital status
Yours truly,
Kelvin .R.Edward

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