Dear Sir,
Naturally this letter will come to you as a surprise since
we do not know each other, please permit me however to introduce myself. I am
Didan Kimati,
a staff of the Ministry of Finance and Economic planning here
in Ghana. At the risk of boasting, I wish you to understand that I am a top
personal aid
to the Minister and therefore, I am privy to several pieces of
information.
This aside, I am the secretary to the Contract payment
committee. Subsequent upon the recent debt relief granted by the G8 Nations to
the Republic of
Ghana, the Government under the leadership of his Excellency,
President John A. Kufour, has decided to pay off all the accumulated back-log of
contract
debts owed to both local and foreign contractors.
However,
some of these contract debts span from the regime of his excellency, Osagyefo
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah down to the PNDC government of Flt.
Lt. John J. Rawlings
and to his NDC government days even to the first tenure of President Kufour. To
this effect, some of the contractors can no longer
be traced as they have
tried severally to receive their payment success. Obviously, some may have
died.
The proposal:
I wish to implore you to come in as our
partner to claim the sum of $745 Million United States Dollars which is payment
due some contractors who
built the Akosombo Hydro-electric dam. The contract
was divided in 3 phases. The civil contractors, the water engineers and the
electrical engineering
companies. I understand that you may not know anything
about this subject and you may not even be conversant with the procedure for
building a dam.
But do not worry as we have covered all the bases.
All
we need to do is apply for an initial payment of $475 Million United States
Dollars for the first phase of the contract. As soon as this is
successfully
transferred to your account, we will apply for the other balance. You do not
need to worry about the original contractors.
This has already been taken
care of. We removed some of the files when we took them for review. All we have
to do is replace them with your company
details. As soon as this is done, we
shall approve your file for immediate payment. Once again, do not worry about
this, it will be approved.
At this juncture, I wish to point out that the
funds are currently deposited at the Swiss National Bank and I am currently in
Geneva where I have held
series of meetings with the bank officials at the
Swiss National Bank who have assured me that once the necessary documentation
are in place the
funds will be directly wired to the designated account. Of
course we will give them something for their troubles. While I am here you may
reach me on
telephone number 0041225330355
We have estimated that it
will take between 10 and 14 working days to complete this project. Should you
wish to participate, please contact me.
You may be worried about the
legitimacy of this, you may also be worried about if it were found out. The
answer is do not worry, everything has been
carefully thought out and
planned. Should you have any questions of whatever nature, please do not
hesitate to ask me. By the way, you may be worried as well, that this is a scam.
There is no need for you to worry. We do sincerely hope to work this out with
you.
As regards what's in it for you, we propose a sharing ratio of
60:40. 60% for us and 40% for you. If you have any problems with this, please
note that
we are open to negotiations so long as they are reasonable. Do
accept our heart felt good wishes as I look forward to your
response.
Until I hear from you, I am with very kind
regards,
Didan Kimati