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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "JONATHAN MEYERS" <hamiltonsolicitors@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: jonathanmeyers2005@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 10:01:31 +0000
Subject: COMPANY INVESTMENT/PARTNERSHIP.
FROM THE DESK OF JONATHAN MEYERS.
CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
POWER HOLDINGS COMPANY OF NIGERIA PLC (PHCN)
DIRECT TEL: + 234-8029925530.
www.nepanigeria.org
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: US$17M FOR INVESTMENT
Sir,
Although I have not prior to this letter had any formal contact or
communication with you, however your contact was personally sourced by me in
my quest for a reliable company, Investor, Businessman or partner to assist
with an urgent business deal requiring utmost trust and confidentiality. I
know my medium of contact might make you apprehensive owing to the spate of
internet scams going round. But I want to assure you that this is not one of
such.
I am ENGINEER JONATHAN MEYERS. Chairman, Contract Award and Implementation
Committee in the Power Holdings Company of Nigeria Plc (PHCN), formally,
National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). My duty includes ,awards of
contracts, vetting same and making payments on behalf of my Company (PHCN)
alongside the Chief Accountants and Directors of
Audit.
SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed to privately invest
extensively in your country. I am intending to resign from Government
services to private business with some other officials of my Corporation
involved in this deal as partners.I have specifically been mandated to
arrange with you for terms of trade and possible transfer of the funds
needed for the investment into your company’s or personal account.
SOURCE OF FUND: This fund was incurred from an over invoiced contract
awarded to an American firm in the year, 2004 for the supply of Power
Transformers and High Tension Cables for Rural Electrification Projects in
the Niger Delta Communities of Nigeria.The original value of this contract
was purposely over estimated by us the Tenders Board Committee to the tune
of US$17M (Seventeen million, US Dollars only). Now that the Original firm
that executed the contract has received its payment fully,we now want to
transfer the over invoiced sum to your company’s or Personal account and
privately invest in any profitable form of business. The US$17M has since
been approved for payment/remittance among other payments that have been
made. This money is now floating in the Country’s Apex Bank as a redundant
fund waiting to be claimed.
Because of our Federal Government's new law on Civil Service, Civil Servants
are prohibited by the Code of Conduct bureau
from owning or operating foreign bank accounts Hence I solicit your help to
remit this fund into your
company’s or private account pending when we come over to your country for
disbursement.
To enable us process and remit this fund into your bank account successfully
within 10 banking days from the day of your response, we need the following
information from you by a return e-mail:
(1). BENEFICIARY NAME (2). YOUR BANK PARTICULARS INCLUDING YOUR BANK NAME,
ADDRESS, ACCOUNT NUMBER AND
SWIFT, TEL/FAX AND TELEX NUMBERS (3). YOUR PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL TEL/FAX
NUMBERS AND ADDRESS.
Note that as soon as we receive this information, they will be used to
prepare Documents to facilitate the final processing and subsequent
remittance of the fund to your nominated Bank account. With this modality,
it makes it possible for you to act as a sub-contractor to the original firm
that executed the Contract
This transaction is 100% risk-free having done all the underground works
locally for the smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account within
the shortest period. I advise that you keep this business a top secret and
rest all correspondences to E-mail and phone only because I am occupying a
sensitive position in the government circle and also this is once in a life
time opportunity.
Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on my instructions and
that our own share of the money will be safe. We have jointly agreed to
reward you with 20% of the total sum for your honest assistance and
co-operation while 70% will be for my
colleagues and me. And the remaining 10% will be mapped out for settling all
expenses (local and foreign) incurred in the course of this transaction
*I HAVE REACHED YOU BY THIS PARTICULAR EMAIL AS A CODE .INDICATE YOUR
INTEREST BY REPLYING TO MY EMAIL ADDRESS: jonathanmeyers2005@yahoo.com.
BUT IF FOR ANY REASON YOU HAVE FOUND THIS EMAIL OFFENSIVE AND THINK THIS IS
A SCAM,PLEASE DELETE IT AND KEEP THIS INFORMATION CONFIDENTIAL.
Best Regards,
Engr. JONATHAN MEYERS.
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