Attnresident/Ceo. STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY). I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit. I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U. S.Dollars. This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us. SHARE: - For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me and my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be incurred by us during the course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses. It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts. We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security. We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present Democratic Government starts Auditing all Federal Government owned Parastatals. Please contact me immediately through my email address whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, send an email to me and i will furnish you with more details as time is of the essence in this business. I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. Yours Faithfully,
Dear Friend, As regards your swift response i decided to give you additional information,I wish to explain that this transaction is 100% legal and genuine and the funds in question emanated from an over invoiced Contract that my Committee awarded to a Multinational Company. The contract was for the Contruction, Installation and Laying of Pipe in Port-Harcourt and Warri Refineries. It was awarded at the sum of US $671.5million; but the contractor's actual estimate was $650million. The contractor has now been fully paid his contract sum, less this excess amount, which we now wish to transfer into the account we expect you to provide for us. This amount has been in a suspense account with the Central Bank of Nigeria; and we, as Civil Servants (Government Workers) are not allowed to operate foreign bank accounts.The way we intend to go about it is that we will incorporate your Company in Nigeria, and backdate all the papers to the time when the Contract was awarded. We will then raise engineering approvals and other contract approval certificates in your favour, to show that you executed work for the Nigerian Government. With these documents, we will process your Company information into our payment chart and apply for the payment of other contractors,alongside yours. Payment will then be processed by the Central Bank of Nigeria in your favour, and the Central Bank of Nigeria will transmit the money via telegraphic transfer to your nominated Bank account, after which, we will withdraw all documents relating to the payment as double security measure to clean up all records. All these will take about 6 working days to complete. We will travel to meet you in your country as soon as the transaction has reached advanced stage, in order to await the arrival of the Funds. We will bring along, all the Original Documents relating to the payment to justify the basis for the payment, and to convince your Government and your Bankers that the funds are not Drug related nor Money Laundering. This is a deal, and it has taken almost a lifetime of working (with the Government) for my colleagues and I to arrange. However, we are working with you in good faith and we expect you to reciprocate same. We are very serious and responsible people and we wish to do this transaction with a serious and responsible person hoping not to be betrayed. At least we require this assurance for our peace of mind. Please forward your company name,address,phone and fax numbers and Bank name,address,account and routing numbers immediately to my email box as soon as possible Best Regards.
Bank account number? yea right! I was wondering when the punch line was coming LOL! After I read the first post I was thinking, man someone is being awful risky to try to launder money, then I saw the part about wanting YOU'RE bank account #. I would contact someone about this before some blithering idiot DOES fall for this.
You send them "POWER OF ATTORNEY" for your account and they are supposed to deposit the money in your account...INSTEAD~~THEY CLEAN YOU OUT!!!
Wow, and they sent this through EMAIL which we all know is realllllyyyy secure and private.... LOL..... I hate it when I hear about the people that have fallen for this scam. ;-(
This thing has been going around for awhile now, it's hit my email inbox a couple of times. DELETE DELETE DELETE
I actually heard a talk show host or something similar stating, as a fact, that this and the related scams are responsible for Nigeria's third largest revenue. It's so bad that I now have a spam filter (give this a try for yourself) for the term "Union Bank of Nigeria", which catches about 60% of these.
Turn it in. We get tons of 'em. Someday, after piecing enough information together, they'll catch'em. It takes time to build a case. However, there are agencies which keep track of these scams.