From: "Wahid William" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <wdft@student.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:10:00 +0100
Subject: Can You Be Trusted?

Dear Friend,

For Your Immediate Consideration - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.

I am Mr Wahid Williams and accountant in the Malaysian Ministry of Energy and a member of a two-man tender board in charge of contract approval and payment.

I came to know of you in my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential business transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account in the form of contract executed for the government of Malaysia, it may sound strange but, take patience and read on.

There were series of contracts executed by a Consortium of Multinational in the Ministry of Energy in favor of the Malaysian government among which were:
(I) The extension of the pipeline network within Malaysia for refined petroleum, downstream products distribution and subsequent evacuation ~ US$195 Million.
(ii) Contract for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of old strategic storage facilities in the country-US$152 Million.
(iii) The construction of strategic storage tanks for Petroleum Products (Depots) ~ US$240 Million.

The original values of these contracts were deliberately over-invoiced by my office, to the tune of US$10,200,000.00 (Ten Million Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars). The original companies that executed these contracts have been fully paid and these projects have been officially commissioned. However, the over-invoiced part that was pending has now been approved for payment by my office and is now ready to be paid out through Malaysian government nominated bank in Europe. Consequently, my colleagu
es and I are willing to use your (company) name as the beneficiary and the contractor that executed these contracts and approve payment to you.

The reason for contacting you is that, due to the sensitive nature of our office we are prohibited by the civil service code of conduct (Civil Service Laws) from opening/operating foreign bank accounts in our name.

You are to keep 20% of the total contract sum as reward for your cooperation. 5% will then be set aside for contingency (expenses) between the parties in the course of securing these funds.

You must however NOTE that this proposal is subject to the following terms and conditions;
(I) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
(ii) That you would treat this information with utmost secrecy and confidentiality because of the circumstances we now find ourselves.
(iii) That the funds would be transferred to an account over which you have absolute control.

You do not have to do much, send us your name or that of the company you wish to use and we shall in turn use our office to secure the necessary document to prove that the contract was awarded to you and then approve urgent payment. the payment instrument will be sent to the Malaysian government correspondent bank in the United Kingdom for payment.

We are confident that you will receive payment approval within 14 working days after we file your name. Our assurance is that your role is 100% risk free.

To accord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the parties involved and the funds, the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your name or that of the company you may nominate as the bona-fide beneficiary.

Please, contact me {wdft@inmail24.com} as soon as possible on my private email address.

Yours faithfully,

Mr Wahid Williams.