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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: "Grant Ibe" <grantibe@msn.com>
Reply-To: info_grantibe@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:22:45 +0000
Subject: From: Dr.Grant Ibe.
From: Dr.Grant Ibe.
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Plot 1684, Sanusi fafunwa Street,
Victoria Island,
P. M. B. 15974, Marina, Lagos.
Nigeria.
Telephone:234 802 3714808
ATTN: President/Ceo.
REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
First of all, I sincerely pray and hope that this proposal meets you in good
condition.
Through business inquiries from my local chambers of commerce and industry,
you
were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship. Records
show
your ability to handle a financial transaction of considerable amount, which
has formed the bedrock of my present business preposition for a partnership
with you. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected
executive to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and
confidentiality.
I am a member of the Federal Government Contract Review Committee vested
with
the responsibility to appraise contract claims and makes recommendation to
the
Government. In 1997, a contract was awarded by the now defunct Military
Regime
to a foreign firm for the Construction of Heavy Duty Drilling Pipelines
Network
for the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries and Petro-Companies, which are
subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.This contract
was
over invoiced to the tune of US$31,500,000.00 (Thirty one, Five Hundred
Thousand USD). This was done deliberately by the then contract arbitrators
with
the intention of diverting the over-invoiced amount but unfortunately that
Government was overtaken by another military coup.In the course of our
assignment we discovered that this amount is deposited in an Escrow account
with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), our finding, reveal
that the original contractor has been fully paid, it is this over-invoiced
sum
we now intend to transfer into an offshore account you will be providing us.
It
is pertinent to state here that my country has no reward for hard labour and
honesty and the Government has no social or welfare system for the citizenry
nor has the Government establish any retirement benefit for retiring civil
servants.
Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we
have
agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 25% of the transferred sum while 10%
shall be set aside for incidental expenses incurred during the course of the
transaction. It is our intention therefore, having your understanding and
cooperation to invest our 65% share in real estates and properties pending
our
retirement when we will be able to repatriate the fund for local investment.
I
would require from you by returning 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 your company does contract projects of the kind
described here . The assumption is that your company won the major contract
bid
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 contracts at the Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) and the Federal
Ministry of Finance and I assure you that the fund will be released and
transferred if we get your co-operation to assist us in this deal. As soon
as
the transfer is concluded we shall, through our contract, withdraw all
documents used from all the relevant Government Ministries and parastatal
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 to safe our
life
after retirement and those of our children.
Please contact me without delay on my E-mail, whether or not you are
interested
in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me to search for another
foreign
partner that will assist us.Again we look forward to doing business with you
and solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this matter.
Yours faithfully,
DR.GRANT IBE.
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