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From: uwaoko1 emmanuel <uwaoko1@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: kanycole@gawab.com
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 16:52:57 -0800 (PST)
Subject: emmanuel
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: uwaoko1@yahoo.com
Dr. Emmanuel Uwaoko
Secretary to the Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victoria-Island, Lagos.
Dear Friend,
I am a highly placed official of Government of Nigeria and also a founding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP). My committee - The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)-which is in charge of
managing and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues for the Nigerian
government which covers payment to foreign and local contractors that have executed
contracts for our country. The revenue under our control runs into several hundred of
millions of dollars monthly. Myself and other colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need
of a foreign partner with whose bank account we shall transfer the sum of Forty Nine
Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars($49.5m). This fund was accrued
from various over invoicing of foreign contractors' payments made over the years.
The Total fund is presently waiting in the Government Account named CBN/FGN
INDEPENDENT REVENUE account Central Bank of Nigeria. However, by virtue
of our position as civil servants and members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this
funds in our name. This is because as top civil servants, we are not allowed by
law of the land to own or operate bank accounts outside our country for now.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for an overseas
partner in whose account we would transfer the fund, hence the reason for this mail.
We shall be Transferring the money to your account with your company as the
beneficiary, under the guise that you are being paid for a contract which you/your
company executed for our country through the NDDC and any other Federal Ministry
that we decide to use to siphon the funds through.
For your support and partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees or the
percentage you wish to be paid when the funds arrive your bank account.
You must however note that this transaction, with regards to our disposition to continue
with you, is subject to these terms. Firstly, our conviction of your transparency. Secondly,
that you treat this
transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and above all, that you will
provide an account over which you have absolute control .
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there is no risk or legal lliability
either to ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we have put in place the
neccesary machinery that will
ensure a hitch free transfer into your account upon acceptance.
The transfer will be effected to your account within ten to fourteen (10-14) working
days from the date we reach an agreement and you furnish me with a suitable bank
account and company name and address
with all your contact numbers including fax number.
I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your confidentiality in
this transaction, Please mail your response to me for me to update you on our plans as to how we intend to actualize this transaction.
Sincerely yours,
- uwaoko1 emmanuel
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