There is nothing quite like tales of fraud and embezzlement

To start one's day. This is the latest from my in-box:

from boateng essien hide details 8:51 am (45 minutes ago)
reply-to essien_ghicb22@yahoo.com
date Oct 3, 2007 8:51 AM
subject Confirm Your Interest ( Confidential)
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From Mr. John Kofi
The Manager, International
Commercial Bank Ghana
First Light Branch
Acrra,Ghana,

Attn:

I got your contact during my search for a reliable, honest and a trustworthy person to entrust this huge transfer project with. My name is Mr.John Kofi. I am the manager of the international commercial bank Ghana, first light branch. I am a Ghanaian married with two kids.

I am writing to solicit your assistance in the transfer of us$4,500.000.00.
This fund is the excess of what my branch in which I am the manager made as profit during the last year. I have already submitted an approved end of the year report for the year 2006 to my head office here in Accra and they will never know of this excess.

I have since then, placed this amount of us$4,500.000.00 on a suspense account without a beneficiary.

As an officer of the bank, I cannot be directly connected to this money thus I am impelled to request for your assistance to receive this money into your bank account.

I intend to part 30% of this fund to you while 70% shall be for me. I do need to stress that there are practically no risk involved in this. It's going to be a bank-to-bank transfer. All I need from you is to stand as the original depositor of this fund.


Sincerely,
Mr. John Kofi.

Not very original. I like the ones I got from Suhfa Arafat bettter. Obviously, I am not good a following instructions and my first thought was to wonder if he was a relative/acquaintance to Kofi Annan?