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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: DRCHARLESZIK55 <charles_zik@sify.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:51:22 +0100
Subject: Confirm Business Partnership
Dear Partner,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this
transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
CONFIDENTIAL and "TOP SECRET." Though I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to
contact you first by your email due to the urgency of this transaction,
as we have been reliably informed that it will take at least two to
three weeks for a normal post to reach you. So we decided it is best
using the email.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Dr.
Charles Zik, a senior official in the nigerian National Petroluem
Corporation and I head a Three-man tender board in charge of Contracts
Awards and payment Approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a
reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential business
transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a
foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I and my colleagues are
top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel. Our
duties include evaluation,vetting, approval for payment of contract
jobs done for the NNPC, etc. In order to commence this business, we
solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the
said funds.
The source of this funds is as follows:
During the last military regime here in Nigeria, this committee
awarded a contract of US$400,000,000.00
(Four Hundred Million United States Dollars) to five construction firms
on behalf of the Petroleum Ministry for the supply, construction and
installation of Oil Pipeline from Warri to PortHarcourt.
During this process my colleagues and I decided amongst ourselves to
deliberately over-inflate the total contract sum to US$431,500,000.00
(Four Hundred and Thirty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars)
with the main intention of sharing the remaining sum of
US$31,500,000.00 (Thirty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) amongst ourselves.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has since approved the sum of
US$431,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and Thirty One Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) for us as the contract sum, and the sum
of US 400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred Million United States Dollars) has
also been paid to the foreign contractors concerned as contract
entitlements for the contract done, but since each of the companies is
entitled to US$80,000,000.00 only, we are now left with
US$31,500,000.00 balance in the account which we intend to transfer
abroad into a safe and reliable account to be
disbursed amongst ourselves, but by virtue of our positions as civil
servants and members of this panel, we cannot do this by ourselves, as
we are prohibited by the ?Code of Conduct Bureau? (Civil Service Laws)
from opening / operating foreign accounts in our names, making it
impossible for us to acquire the money in our names.
I have, therefore, been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues
in the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we
would transfer the sum of US$31,500,000.00 (Thirty One Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), hence we are writing you this
letter.
My colleagues and I have agreed that if your company can act as the
beneficiary of this funds on our behalf, you or your company will
retain 30% of the total amount of US$31,500,000.00 (Thirty One Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), while 60% will be for us
(members of this panel) and the remaining 10% will be used in
offsetting all debts/expenses incurred (both local and foreign) in the
cause of this transfer. Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at
this juncture is enormous. In return we demand your complete honesty
and trust.
You must however, NOTE that this transaction will be strictly based on
the following terms and conditions as we have stated below, as we have
heard confirmed cases of business associates running away with funds
kept in their custody when it finally arrive their accounts. A very
good and recent example is the one of Mr. Peter Hopwood, the President
of Mileage Trading and Investment Company at
Number 121, West 55th Street, 21st Floor, New York 10022, and former
Chairman of OMPADEC (Mr.PatrickOpia), who we were reliably informed
that after the agreement between both partners in which he was to take
15% of the money, while the remaining 85% for Nigerian Officials. With
all the required documents signed, the money was duly transferred into
his account, only to be disappointed on their arrival in New York and
were informed that Mr. Peter Hopwood was no longer on that address,
while his telephone and fax numbers have been re-allocated to somebody
else. This was how they lost US$18.5 Million to Mr. Hopwood.
This is a very recent story here in my country and everybody is aware
of this, some of the officials decided to cry out and face the law,
because they felt they had lost too much to a stranger, while the
Chairman of OMPADEC (Mr. Patrick Opia) is hiding in a foreign country.
So right now we are taking all precautionary measures to guard against
re-occurrence of such act in our case. This is why we have decided that
this transaction will be based completely on the following:
(a). Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
(b). That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality.
(c). That upon receipt of the funds, you will promptly release our
share (60%) on demand after you have removed your 30% and all expenses
have been settled.
(d). You must be ready to produce us with enough information about
yourself to put our minds at rest.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and risk free and we
hope to conclude the business in Seven Bank working days from the date
of receipt of the necessary information and requirement from you.
Please, acknowledge the receipt of this letter using my email address.
I will bring you into the complete picture of the transaction when I
have heard from you. Your urgent response will be highly appreciated as
we are already behind schedule for this financial quarter.
Please reply to my personal email for
confidentiality ,zikcharles55@sify.com
Thank you and God bless.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Charles Zik
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