From: "Dr. Ahmed Bello," (may be fake)
Reply-To: <dr.ahmed_bello@foxmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 11:05:56 -0800
Subject: Business proposal: Strictly confidential.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Business proposal: Strictly confidential.

I am Dr. Ahmed Bello, the chief accountant to the contract award and monitoring committee (C.A.M.C.) in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I got your personal name and address through a trusted friend of yours, though I did not disclose my real purpose to him, I only requested from him to recommend a trustworthy international business partner whom I can trust from your country and go into a confidential business relationship with the fellow.

Sometime in 1990, a contract was awarded by my committee to a conglomerate of foreign companies attached to the NNPC. The contract was over-invoiced to the tune of $3.5m (Three Million five hundred United States Dollars) this was done deliberately; the over-invoicing was a deal by members of my committee to benefit from the project. We now desire to transfer this money which is presently in a suspense account of the NNPC with the Central Bank of Nigeria into an overseas account which we expect you to provide to us because as civil servant we are not allowed to open account overseas hence we need you to stand and receive the above sum as the contractor / beneficiary.Benefit: For providing the account where we shall remit the money and for your assistance in this project you will be entitled to 35% of the total fund, 65% will be for my partners and me. On your acceptance of this proposal, I would require urgently the following information from you.

1) The name and address of your bank where you
would want to receive this money
2) Your account number and account name
3) Swift code and routing number (If available with you).
3) Your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.

The above documents will be used to make official application for the release of the money into your account as the beneficiary. It does not matter whether or not your company does project of this nature as described here or not. The assumption is that you won a Major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not big trading companies of firms win major contracts for Nigeria Government through their deep connections, and sublets it out to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.

Be assured we have strong connections at the central Bank of Nigeria and the federal ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all this will be released and transferred into your account within 11 working days if we get the necessary support and cooperation from you as our foreign partner. And as soon as the whole amount is confirmed inside your account, we shall use our position in government to withdraw all documents to avoid any reference to this transaction now or in future; hence this project is 100% risk free. If this proposal is acceptable to you as I expect, urgently contact me either by e-mail as (dr.ahmed_bello@foxmail.com), for more details. I wait to hear from you urgently.

Thanks,
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Ahmed Bello