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From: Laran Ashbaugh <[email protected]>
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 13:52:42 -0700
Subject: My dear beloved,
My dear beloved,
Please, I am writing this letter to you, with all due respect, trust,
humanity, pain, tears and sorrow from my heart, believing in God the
Almighty, will let you find a place in your heart to help me, and you in
return will benefit from me if you truly agree to help me fully and
honestly with your divine heart. Although I never meet with you in person
or communicate with you before now as this is my first time meeting you,
but I can see that you are a reliable, responsible, transparent, kind and
honest to work with me to help receive my inheritance money in your country
prior to my arrival to you in your country for establishment and continuity
of my higher education there. But I need to be absolutely convince and have
confidence in you, and your sincerity.
I'm a female a dual Citizen from the USA and South Africa , my full name
is: Laran Ashbaugh, I came here in Ghana, West Africa to claim my long
pending inheritance money in which my late father acquired from Contracts
and Gold mining in the amount of $108,803,971 and deposited with the bank
Royal Trust Values Limited here in Ghana before his death.
As for me, I think it's one day you get to know someone, either physically
or through correspondence like this and relationship starts right from
there continually regardless of the distance between, and all that matters
is the trust, concern and love for each other parts. Frankly, I tell you
all about me, and my true legacy long pending in the bank here, since the
death of my parents, and no claims have been made for my legacy and the
bank has given official notice for me to introduce my husband or any
reliable foreign trustee beneficiary who will help me receive my legacy
outside Africa or else my legacy will be confiscated after the end of their
last mandate because of the urgency of the requirement, I have decided to
come here in person to witness everything by myself.
I am an orphan, an only child and daughter of my late parents; I lost my
parents in Java, Indonesia earthquake of May 27, 2006, when my father and
mother went there on a business trip and vacation, and that how they were
among the thousands of prominent figures that have been reported dead.
However, my parents were being awarded a whole lot of Contracts here in
African countries and he had a very big company in Nigeria before his death
although I want us to finish with the one in Ghana before the ones in
Nigeria.
I almost committed suicide when I heard the sad news about the sudden death
of my parents, because they were my only family in the world, but because
they are dead, the whole world is as an empty hole in my life; I do not
have any help anywhere, I have been suffering with bitterness here only God
knows, but when I remember that God is the Creator of heaven and earth; I
was able to quickly understand and console myself to take courage and be
strong, but because of my late mother was from another country, from my
late father, which makes me two different nationalities, as my late father
was from the USA and my late mother from South Africa.
For now that my parents are no longer alive, I'm the next closest person
who has the right to introduce my husband but now that I'm not married yet
I have to introduce any reliable foreign trustee beneficiary like you, who
can be able to help me get my inheritance from Africa and help me to invest
in lucrative businesses in your country; Please, I want you to help now to
receive and invest the money in your country, in anticipation of my arrival
to you in your country to start a new life and living with you and continue
my education, which is the most important, what ails my life here, I want
to be a significantly educated in life and do great things in my career
field.
If you will make up your mind to help me get my destiny in your county, I
decided that I have to compensate you with financial benefits in the amount
of 15% of the principle total amount of my inheritance; while the remaining
balance will be for my investment capital in your country through your wise
leadership and management. I have no knowledge of any international
transactions of this kind, but I made the decision personally to tell you
all about my late parents and my overdue inheritance, if you could consider
it in your heart to help me, because it occurred to me that transaction of
this type must include expenditure on the other hand, in the absence of
expenses that I do not have the financial ability right now due to my
present position and status as an orphan, a student and looking for
assistance supports even I am owing some bills in the hotel where I live in
here and the management are planning to seize my luggage's and send me
packing on the streets if I do not pay my bills timely they will sack me
from the hotel and may God forbid if they put me off the hotel now I don't
have anywhere to go or put up my head and most especially I am afraid of
the African people because they are not friendly with foreigners unless if
they know they can benefit something from you they will pretend as if they
are showing love but in their mind is full of wickedness and they can even
kill the person to acquire his/her money/properties that is why I am not
associating with them at all as I am here.
So if you are ready and willing to help me, I would like to you to present
as my foreign trustee beneficiary and partner who is helping me in the
claim directly to instruct the bank on my behalf to release all my
inheritance through you as my foreign trustee beneficiary. I am here with
the vital documents deposit certificates bearing the name of my late
father, as the depositor; Please be so kind as to help me really from your
good heart, I have completely open my heart and mind to you by informing
you the entire truth about each of my life, inheritance, and there was
nothing left that I'm hiding from you. Please dear, Could I truly trust you
and rely on you? Please answer me on this sincerely.
As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will
give you the contact information of the Bank, so that you can contact them
directly on my behalf immediately to put in a claim on my inheritance.
Please keep it only to yourself for now, in this point in time when the
bank will release my inherited through you. I beg you not to disclose any
information of my inheritance to anyone till I come to you because I am
afraid of the evil and the foul, people around the world who would like to
plot against you or me, if they know of a lucrative amount of my
inheritance is coming to you; I thank God today I am alive until this day
to inherit those of the good efforts of my late father in that respect I
wouldn't like to meet a man who would betray my trust, and to do away with
my inheritance, when issued and transmitted through but with you I am
completely convinced this is why I was free to open up my heart and those
important secrets that I hid from the eyes of an eagle since to you.
In the light of the foregoing, I shall appreciate an urgent response
indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction
sincerely and transparently, without having any evil mind against me in the
near future, when my legacy would be released to you.
If you are willing and ready to help me in the claim please do not hesitate
to reply me as soon as possible.
I look forward to your urgent reply.
Thank you so much and God bless you always.
Yours Faithfully,
Laran Ashbaugh.