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