From: "Ahmed Tijani" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <ahmedtj2010@ciudad.com.ar>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 16:42:47 +0100
Subject: My Dear friend

My dear good friend,

 
You certainly would be surprise to read from me and to be informed at this point about these factual details. Honestly after a serious thought, I have decided to personally reach you directly because I do not have anything against you, but your so called partners working with you to realize the remittance of your payment. Have you ever wondered why you have been going this vicious circle over the past years with respect to having your fund paid to you without any success? It is possible that you were not informed that your payment was brought to me for finalization, neither were you informed that I am the person frustrating every move to get your fund remitted, another deceit on the part of your partner(s). Well, like I said earlier, I have nothing against you or your payment but Im only trying to protect my interest. I do not want to mention names here, but am certain you are aware of whom I am referring to having not received your fund.
 
I am the Director, International Wire Transfer/Telex Department, Central Bank of Nigeria, which is the apex bank in Nigeria. Some time in the past your partner(s) approached me through a friend of mine who works with one of the Government Ministries here and requested that I assist them conclude a money transfer deal with you as the beneficiary and we all agreed. According to him, he wanted to use this strategy to transfer the sum of US$30M by presenting your name as “Beneficiary” whose fund has not been paid by the Government of Nigeria.
 
Although we agreed that once I have your fund remitted, he would give me your contact information before I release the fund to your account and also let me have 20% of the fund. When he realized that I have programmed your fund for onward transfer and your name has been approved among the list of those to be paid as beneficiary, instead of letting me have your contact information to enable me regulate the transfer and confirm when it arrive your account to enable me send to you my account details for my share of 20%, he started avoiding me and resorted to threats. Because of that I immediately deleted your Payment Initializing Code (PIC) among the list of those to be paid, which made it IMPOSSIBLE for the transfer to be completed to your account. Perhaps you may have forgotten about this payment am talking about owning to frustrations and bitterness occasioned by the lies they have fed you with and constant demand for money, but I want t o assure you that

 

It is instructive to inform that your partner became angry the more when he saw that their plan did not work, they started bribing other officials to get another approval to enable them transfer the money to you but all the effort were to NO success. Is it not funny that a beneficiary is being asked to pay for approval while his fund is here with us? I am 100% responsible for the delay and obstructions because of their breach of the gentleman agreement I had with them abi initio. If you doubt what I have just told you now, then go ahead and pay any amount they will ask you to pay, after a short time they will come up with another reason to pay again and it goes on and on without end. I did not reveal the Payment Initializing Code (PIC) to any staff of this apex bank even till now to because I want to avoid further betrayal hence no office can release the payment. I actually have the power to remit this fund to any account of my choice overseas, b ut since I Again bear in mind your payment is not in any offshore payment center and you will never receive your payment from any offshore centers as follows London, Spain, Holland, Dubai, not even the United States of America or anywhere outside Nigeria because that was what they may have told you. Now if you want us (you & I) to work together for the conclusion of the remittance into your account, these are my conditions.
 
(I). You must keep our transaction highly secret and stop further contact with your partners, because I don't want to get involve with any of them again in life and we will share the fund in 50% equal base. Should I discover your continue communication with them, I will ruin the transaction completely.
 
(ii). You MUST assure me that you will not betray me at last and my own share will be safe until when I arrive in your country for the sharing of the fund.
 
(iii) As you have seen, it will be useless and mere waste of money if you continue with them and we will conclude the transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality if you wish to adhere to my directives and instructions.
 
If these conditions are acceptable to you, contact me as soon as possible to let us finalize all the arrangement and conclude the transaction immediately without any further delay. I will give you more important details once I hear from you based on if you promise to keep away from them and handle this matter with utmost confidentiality because I want to transfer the money without any of them knowing.

 
Finally, I apologize for this lengthy mail but it is inline with my effort to put be thorough with the situation at hand. God bless as I wait for your swift reply on. ahmedtj06@yahoo.gr

 
Best Regards.

 
Alhaji Ahmed Tijani

Intl. Wire Transfer/Telex Department,

Central Bank of Nigeria