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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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From: "Alhaji Gambo Jimeta" <alhaji156@sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:02:07 +0000
Subject: You will benefit from this deal.
Kind Attn;
BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$15.6 M (FIFTEEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) & BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.
First,I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction,this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret as you
were introduced to us in confidence through the Nigerian Chamber of
Commerce, Foreign Trade Division which provide databases of most current
listings of potential individuals and foreign investors business
contact,email addresses and other important information of countries
overseas.
I am Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, the Secretary of the Federal government of Nigeria
Contract Award and Monitoring Committee (CAMC) of the Petroleum (Special)
Trust Development Fund (PTDF).Sometime ago to be precise by late last year,
several contracts were awarded to a conglomerate of Foreign Companies by my
committee on which i oversee on behalf of PTDF, the contracts sum were
over-invoiced in all the contracts awarded and amounted to the tune of US
$15.6 Million in total.
This was done deliberately, as the over-invoicing was a deal by members of
my committee to benefit from the project as we intend securing the future of
our lives after retirement which is near having put in long service in
Government.
We now desire to transfer the money,which is presently lying in a suspense
of the PTDF in a Correspondent Bank of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
into an overseas account which we expect you to provide in assisting us.
We have unanimously agreed that the following funds will be shared thus
after it has been paid into your account;
a) 20% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
fund.
b) 10% has been set aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to
both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of
the transaction.
c) 70% to us the government officials (which we wish to commence an
important business in conjunction with you as you will be spear heading our
own share of this funds to invest in any worthy investments in your country
or area of business when we come for sharing.
I Would Require viz:
a) Name and address of Company/ Beneficiary
b) Your personal fax and Telephone numbers .
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure from the desiginitated Government paying
institutions/Government Ministries/Parastatals over here for the release of
the money and onward transfer to your nominated account.It does not matter
whether or not your company or you does contract projects of this nature as
described here, the assumption here is that you won a major contract and
subcontracted it out to other companies.As more often than not, big trading
companies or individuals of unrelated field win major contracts and
subcontracts to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts and
thus we are confident that with this fact in place ,the transaction will be
successfuly executed without any hitches
whatsoever.
We have strong and reliable connections and strong contacts at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other desiginitated Government paying
institutions/Government Ministries/Parastatals who are available and ready
to work with us in this and we have no doubts at all that this money will be
released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partners to assist
us in this deal.
Therefore,when this business is successfully concluded we shall through the
same connections withdraw all documents used in the execution of this
transaction from all the concerned government ministries invovled for 100%
security.
We thus want this money to be transferred to the foreign account which you
are going to provide bearing in mind that our civil service code of conduct
forbids us from owning foreign company or running foreign account.
All expenses regarding the account opening if not already in existence shall
be borne by you,though all expenses are however reimbursable as already
stated above on conclusion of business.Please acknowledge the receipt of
this mail by getting back to me in the earliest possible ime.However,this
matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency it
deserves bearing in mind and knowing fully well that we are still in active
service in Government and have our untarnisahble good records in government
books to protect.
Please you should signify your intention to assist by you sending me a mail
through this box or through my confidential email box ( alhaji156@mac.com)
so that I can brief you further with the blue print details of the
masterplan carefully scrutinized and outlined for this mutually beneficial
transaction so as to give this transaction all the legalities and security
due it for the
transfer of the funds.
I wait in anticipation of your co-operation.
Reply through: alhaji156@mac.com
Yours Faithfully,
Alhaji Gambo Jimeta.
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