Re: Urgent Contact


Subject: Re: Urgent Contact
From: Scott Johnson (sjohnson@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 14:32:22 AKDT


wow... they don't call 'em Nigerian scams for nothing.....

http://www.ripe.net/perl/whois/

212.96.29.167 = "Nigeria Online"

----- Original Message -----
From: <petergo30@email.com>
To: <petergo30@email.com>
Sent: 04 June, 2002 21:51
Subject: Urgent Contact

>
> FROM THE DESK OF: Dr.Peter Ego
> E-Mail: petergo100@email.com(Respond Here)
> LAGOS - NIGERIA.
>
> ATTN:
>
>
> REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
>
> It is with my profound dignity that I write you this
> very important
> and highly confidential letter. First, I must
> solicit your strictest
> confidentiality in this transaction. This is by
> virtue of its nature
> as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and "TOP SECRET".
> Though I know that a
> transaction of this magnitude will make any one
> apprehensive and
> worried,considering the fact that we have not met
> each other before,
> but I am assuring you that all will be well at the
> end of the day. We
> have decided to contact you by email due to the
> urgency of this
> transaction, as we have been reliably informed that
> it will take at
> least a minimum of two to three weeks for a normal
> post to reach you,
> so we decided it is best using the e-mail,which is
> quicker and also
> to enable us meet up with the second quater payment
> for the year
> 2000.
>
> However, let me start by introducing myself properly
> to you. I
> am Dr.Peter Ego, a Director General in the
> Department Of Petroleum
> Resources(D.P.R) and I presently head The Contract
> Award Panel incharge
> of Contract Awards and Payment Approvals. I came to
> know of you in my search for a reliable and
> reputable person to
> handle a very confidential business transaction
> which involves the
> transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account
> requiring
> maximum CONFIDENCE. I and my colleagues are Top
> Officials of the
> Federal Government Contract Award Panel. Our duties
> include Evaluation, Vetting, Approval for payment of
> Contract jobs
> done for the D.P.R e.t.c. In order to commence this
> business we
> solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer
> into your Account
> the said funds. The source of this funds is as
> follows: In the second
> quarter of 2001 this committee was mandated to
> review and award
> contracts to the tune of US$400 million US dollars
> to a group of five
> firms for the supply construction and installation
> of Oil Pipe lines
> in Warri and Port Harcourt. During this process my
> colleagues and I
> decided and agreed among ourselves to deliberately
> over-inflate the
> total contract sum from US$400 million to US$431
> million United
> States dollars with the main intention of sharing
> the remaining sum
> of US$31 miilion amongst ourselves.
>
> The Federal Government of Nigeria has since the
> second quater of
> year 2001 approved the sum of US$431 million for us
> as the contract sum,
> and the sum of US$400 million has also been paid to
> the foreign companies
> concerned as contract entitlements for the various
> contracts done, but
> since the companies are entiltled to US$400 million
> dollars only, we are
> now left with US$31 million dollars balance in the
> account which we intend to
> disburse amongst ourselves, but by virtue of our
> positions as civil
> servants and members of this panel, we cannot do
> this by ourselves,
> as we are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau
> (Civil Service
> Laws) from opening and/or operating foreign accounts
> in our names
> while still in Government service, making it
> impossible for us to
> acquire the money in our names right now. I have
> therefore, been
> delegated as a matter of trust and urgency by my
> colleagues in the
> panel to look for an overseas partner into whose
> account we would
> transfer the sum of US$31 million. Hence we are
> writing you this
> letter. My Colleagues and I have agreed that if you
> or your company
> can act as the beneficiary of this funds on our
> behalf, you or your
> Company will retain 20% of the total amount (US$31
> million), while
> 70% will be for us(OFFICIALS) and the remaining 10%
> will be used in
> offsetting all debts/expenses and Taxes incurred
> both local and
> foreign in the cause of this transfer. Needless to
> say, the trust
> reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In
> return we demand your
> complete honesty and trust.
>
> You must however NOTE that this transaction will be
> strictly based
> on the following terms and conditions as we have
> stated below;
> a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and
> diligence
> b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost
> secrecy and confidentiality
> c) That you will not ask for more share or try to
> sit on the funds once it is under
> your custody, or any form of blackmail.
> d) That upon receipt of the funds you will release
> the funds as instructed
> by us after you have removed your share of 20% from
> the total amount.
> Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and
> risk free and we hope to conclude
> this transaction seven to fourteen bank working days
> from the date
> of receipt of the necessary requirements from you .
> We are looking
> forward to doing business with you and solicit your
> Total Confidentiality
> in this transaction. There is no cause for alarm. I
> give you my word that you
> are completely safe in doing business with us.
> Transactions like this
> have been successfully carried out in the past by
> most Government
> executives. Here in my country there is great
> economic and political
> disarray and thus looting and corruption is rampant
> and the order of
> the day, thus explaining why you might have heard
> stories of how
> money is been taken out of Nigeria, this is because
> everyone is
> making desperate attempts to secure his or her
> future, so that when
> we retire from active service we donot languish in
> poverty. I will
> explain more to you when I have heard from you.
>
> Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using
> the above e-mail address.
> I will bring you into the complete picture of this
> pending business
> transaction when I have heard from you and also
> receive your
> confidential telephone and fax numbers to enable me
> fax to you all
> necessary information you need to know about our
> pending business
> transaction. I will also send to you my private
> telephone and fax
> numbers where you can always reach me. Your urgent
> response will be
> highly appreciated to enable us transfer the funds
> under the second
> quarter of the year 2002. Thank you and God Bless.
>
> Yours faithfully,
>
> Dr.Peter Ego.
>
> N.B. PLEASE BE INFORMED THAT THIS BUSINESS
> TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL
> AND COMPLETELY FREE FROM DRUG MONEY OR MONEY
> LAUNDERING. THIS IS A
> COMPLETE LEGITIMATE BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
> --
>
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