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CONFIDENTIAL
2 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.
alter:(censored)
IFax: (censored)
ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO
FROM:DR WILLIAM IKOMI
Hello,
I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good health and success
in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.
Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first implore you to
treat with the utmost confidentiality as this is required for its success and
to have faith in this transaction,for opportunities like this only comes to
one once in a life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of my
country's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who are interested in diverting some
funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Apex Bank of my
country.In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance
to enable us transfer into your nominated account the said floating funds. We
are determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this quarter of
2004.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime in my
country,government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts
that were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and parastatals.The
present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has the
mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree
setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who
are being owed outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are
presently floating in our (Apex) Central Bank ready for disbursement and would
like to divert some of it for our own purposes. However, by virtue of our
positions as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these
funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in my country.
I have therefore been mandated,as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the
panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can
transfer the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred thousand
U.S. dollars).That is why I am seeking your assistance We have agreed to share
the money to be transferred into your account, if you agree with our
proposition as follows;
(i)25% to the account owner(you).
(ii)65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii)10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both you and us) incidental
to the actualization of this project. We wish to invest our share of the
proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other viable business
till we are ready and able to have access to them without raising any eyebrows
here at home.
Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to
effect the transfer within fourteen (14)banking days from the date of receipt
of the following information through the ifax number stated above:Your
company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers we will use your company name
to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract in favour of
your company. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we
solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction.
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear
from you.
NOTE:Please get in touch through my IFAX # (censored) .OR reply to my
personal email box ((censored))
MY Regards
Dr.William Ikomi
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