Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 22:59:23
From: "Dr. Yusuf Useni"
Subject: Urgent response needed !!
Dr. Yusuf Useni
Lagos, Nigeria.
6th February 2002
Attention: president/CEO.
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
Firstly I must solicit your strictest confidence in this subject. This is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. A
member of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council (N.E.P.C.) who was part of
the federal government delegation to your country during a trade
exhibition gave your particulars to me. I have decided to seek a
confidential operation with you in the execution of the deal described
hereunder for the benefit of all the parties and hope that you keep it top
secret because of the nature of the business.
Within the ministry of petroleum resources where I work as a director of
engineering and projects, and with the co-operation of four other very top
officials, we have under our control as overdue contract payments, bills
totaling Thirty One Million United States Dollars,which we want to
transfer to a foreign account, with the assistance and co-operation of a
foreign company to receive the said funds on our behalf or a reliable
foreign individual account to receive the funds.
The source of the fund is as follows: during the last military government
here in Nigeria which lasted bout eleven months, government officials set
up companies and awarded themselves various contracts which were grossly
over-invoiced in various ministries. The present civilian government is
not aware of the atrocities committed by their predecessors and as a
result, we have a lot of such over invoiced contract payments pending
which we have identified floating at the central bank of Nigeria ready for
payment. However by virtue of our position as civil servants, we cannot
acquire this money in our names. I was therefore delegated as a matter of
urgency by my colleagues to look for an over seas partner into whose
account we would transfer the sum of US$31,000,000.00 (THIRTY ONE MILLION
UNITED STATES DOLLARS) hence we are writing you this letter.
Since the present civilian government is determined to pay foreign
contractors all debts owed so as to maintain an amiable relationship with
foreign governments and non-government financial agencies. We have
decided to include our bills for approval with the co-operation of some
officials of the federal ministry of finance (F.M.F) and the central bank
of Nigeria (C.B.N). We are seeking your assistance in providing us with a
good company account or any other offshore bank account into which we can
remit this money by acting our main partner and trustee or acting as the
original contractor. This we can do by swapping of account information
and changing of beneficiary and other pertinent information to apply for
payment. By this act, we would be using your company information to apply
for payment, and prepare letters of claim and job description on behalf of
your company. This process would be an internal arrangement with the
departments concerned.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be
willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as compensation will
be us$6.2 million (20%), us$21.7 million (70%) for us and us$3.1 (10%) for
taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
The business itself is 100% safe, provided you treat it with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not m
hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I have reposed
my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.
I will bring the complete picture of the transaction to your knowledge
when I have heard from you.
Thanks for your co-operation,
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Yusuf Useni
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