I just got this very important email from NIGERIA:
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From: DR.ABUBAKAR AHMED Ph.D,FNSE,mni
To: whiskers@oldfox.com
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Business Partnership


DR.ABUBAKAR AHMED Ph.D,FNSE,mni

FAX: 234 1 759 2911.
LAGOS, NIGERIA


ATTN: The President.
Dear Sir,

URGENT BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP.

First, I must solicit your strict confidence in this transaction. Through some discreet inquiries from my local chambers of Commerce, you and your organization were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship. One has no doubt in your ability to handle a financial business of considerable amount, which will form the bedrock of an extensive business partnership in due course. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected executive of your company to handle this transaction with all maturity and confidentiality it deserves.

I am a member of the Federal Government Contract Award and Monitoring Committee in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm by my committee in NNPC. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$10,500,000.00 (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand USD). This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. Specifically, the contract was for the; Construction of Heavy Duty Drilling Pipelines Network and Calibration for Crude Oil and Down Stream Products Distribution and Subsequent Evacuation for the Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries and Petro-Chemical Companies which are subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

We now desire to transfer this money which is in the NNPC Suspense Account with the Central Bank of Nigeria to any overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 30% of the transferred sum while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses during the course of the transaction. It is our intention therefore, having your understanding and cooperation to invest our 60% share of this fund in importation of agricultural and oil prospecting equipment to sub-Sahara Africa, as it will be virtually impossible to retrieve our share in cash.

I would require from you by return fax and phone confirmation as a matter of urgency the following:

1) Beneficiary/ Account Name and or Company Name, Address, office and home phone and fax #.
2) Name, Address, Phone and Fax # of your Bank.
3) Account # of Beneficiary, Routing, Swift or Telex # of your Bank.

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to your account.

It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of the 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 and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.

We have strong and reliable connections and contacts at the Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) and the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all this 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 civil servants and we will not want to miss this opportunity .We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Account for us.

Please contact me immediately through my FAX #: 234 1 759 2911 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.

Again we look forward to doing business with you and solicit your atmost confidentiality in this transaction.

Yours truly,

DR.ABUBAKAR AHMED .
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