In Search For...

From : Dr. Michael Adebanjo.

Subject: In search for...
From: mikebanjo@123.com

Dear Friend,

IN SEARCH FOR A FOREIGN PARTNERSHIP.

Let me commence by first expressing my most sincere apology for infringing on your privacy as I am an uninvited guest to your address. I got your e-mail address from an Internet emaillist, let us immediately put your mind to rest in that regard.

We are interested in the purchase and importation of certain goods into our country, with funds, which are presently trapped in this same country, Nigeria. In order to commence this business and achieve our goal, we need your assistance in the release of the said trapped funds and ultimately, your receipt and custody of these funds abroad. But before I proceed any further, I crave your indulgence and confidence in this communication and transaction in the long run, this is necessitated by virtue of this proposal as being utterly confidential and classified.

We are top officials of a major Government parastatal (name withheld) here in Nigeria, and due to our very membership of this parastatal, we are privy to the information I am about to vaguely reveal to you in trust and confidence as obtained in the urgent business relationship we solicit for. We crave your indulgence for total Confidentiality.

Explicitly, the source of this fund is as follows:

During the regime of our late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, the then Military officials set up private companies and lobbied the award of contracts to their companies, these contract were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries all in the bid for self-enrichment by these military men. Fortunately, after the mysterious death of the head of state followed by the collapse of the military dictatorship, the current civilian Government set up a body to look into the activities of the past military regime. We hold exalted designations/positions this recently set up panel and we have successfully identified several inflated contract funds, which are presently floating in coded terms and accounts at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

We desire to release and use for the purpose stated above a particular contract entitlement from the very several, but due to our position as civil servants and members of this body, we cannot acquire this fund in our names and without a much needed foreign assistance. My colleagues have therefore delegated me as a matter of trust to source for an overseas partner into whose account the sum of US$12,320,000.00 (Twelve Million, Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars), being the contract

entitlement of this particular contract will be transferred into, hence this written request.

Upon the success of this transaction, which is after the receipt of the fund into your account and the use of the funds for the purchase of the desired goods, we propose a sharing ratio as thus:

1. 70% for us (the officials)
2. 20% for the foreign partner (you)
3. 4% for the reconciliation of all expenses, including taxation and all foreign costs incurred by you during the course of the transaction.
4. 6% for the reconciliation of all local expenses incurred by all parties involved on the home front during the course of this transaction.

Please do not have the erroneous impression that the monies are going to come to you that easily. You will have to earn it as nothing good comes that easily. As they say, there is no free lunch in America. Your complete dedication and commitment to the course will be required. Basically, what we are doing is to use you as a front to get these monies transferred out of this country. However, we shall equally require your assistance in advising us on good investment opportunities in your country as we intend to invest a substantial part of our share of the funds in your country. We are poor civil servants (Government workers) who are presented with a lifetime opportunity to secure our future and those of our immediate families in particular and the suffering masses in general.

Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and hitch free, devoid of any form of uncertainty in its entire ramification. We hope that the funds can arrive your account within ten (10) and fourteen (14) banking days from the date of our receipt of some relevant details that I shall intimate you with in my next correspondence. The required details will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your already existing company name or initiate one for you (or as applicable) to prepare the necessary and solid documentary foundation necessary to re- award the contract in your company name and prepare an application for fund release/payments with you as the beneficiary.

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter via e-mail, so I can bring you into the complete picture of this pending project as soon as possible. We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this transaction. May God guide you as you see reason with me.

Thank you very much and best regards,

Dr. Michael Adebanjo.