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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: "MR. VICTOR UMAH" <sbuxton4u_22@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: sbuxton4u@gmail.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:00:24 -0800 (PST)
Subject: PROJECTS COSTS CONSULTANTS
PROJECTS COSTS CONSULTANTS
QUANTITY SURVEYORS, CONSTRUCTION COST CONSULTANTS
& PROJECT MANAGERS
OFFICE: NO.160 KOLAWOLE STREET,
SHOMOLU, LAGOS-NIGERIA
OUR REF: PCC/BE/O1_______________
YOUR REF:_____
ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/CHIEF EXECUTIVE
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS EXECUTION
We are writing based on the information about you and your firm we gathered from the foreign office of Nigerian Chamber of Commerce. We write with absolute confidence in the legality of our firm and that of you and your firm. Basically, the business we are about to introduce is based on trust and real confidence which we believe can exist between us.
For your introduction, we are a small but very influential firm of quality surveyors, construction costs consultants and project managers who have been involved in the planning and execution of a number of projects for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which were executed by foreign contractors.
Most of these contracts were deliberately over-measured and over-invoiced at their planningstages. These projects have been commissioned and the contractors paid their rightful dues leaving the over-invoiced sums owed them by the Corporation.
The New Civilian Government of Nigeria in part of an effort to win international support has directed that we examine these contracts and recommend all outstanding debts due all foreign contractors for payment.
As consulting quantity surveyors on these projects, we and our colleagues at the corporation were able to discover these over-invoicing and over-management. At the end of this exercise, we are left with huge sums of money at the moment in a suspense account of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) resulting from the initial over invoice costs. We are therefore introducing to you one of these contracts where the sum of US$15M (Fifteen Five Million U.S. Dollars) was over-measured and over-invoiced. We now seek the assistance of a trusted foreign company in order to process, claim and remit these funds into a nominated account as debt owed your company.
During our deliberations, we resolve that my firm and my colleagues shall take 60% of the funds while 30% shall be given to you/your compay for your assistance and the remaining 10% shall be used to off-set all expenses that may be incurred by both parties during the course of executing the business. You are therefore advised to keep records of all your expenses in the course of executing the business.
If you are truly disposed to handle this transaction sincerely then get back to me for further advice
Please trust with utmost confidence and urgency as we hope to hear from you soon.
Yours faithfully,
for: PROJECTS COSTS CONSULTANTS
MR. VICTOR UMAH
(PRINCIPAL PARTNER)
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