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From: charles sett <charlesup70@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:42:43 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Deal
Contract review
panel abidjan cote d ivoire (governor office )
ATTN :MANAGING DIRECTOR/C.E.O
FROM :DR Abou Mohammed.
TELEPHONE..+22506011420
PRIVATE EMAIL...aboudulahi_mohammed@yahoo.fr
ATTENT. John Kieran ,
LETTER FOR URGENT ASSISTANCE ON FUND TRANSFER
First,i must solicit your strictest confidence in this
transaction.This by viture of its nature as being
utterly confidential and "TOP SECRET".
You have been recomended by an associate who assured
me in confidence of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending buisness transaction requiring maximum
confidence.
We are top officials of the Federal Government contract reveiw panel who are intrested in importation of goods into our country with funds which are
presently trapped here in COTE D IVOIRE.
In other to commence this business we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said trapped funds.
The source of this fund is as follows:During the last
regime here of General ROBERT GUEI, COTE D IVOIRE,ABIDJAN
some government officails set up companies and awarded
themselves contracts which were grossly over -invoiced
in various ministries.The government set up a contract
review panel and we have identified a lot of inflated
contracts funds which are presently Deposited in a
BANK here in COTE D IVOIRE.
However,by virture of our position as civil servants
and members of the panel,we cannot aquire this money
in our name.I have therefore ,been delegated as a
matter of trust by my colleagues of the panel to look
for an overseas patner into whose account we would
transfer the total sum of USD$20,500,000.00 [TWENTY
MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS].
Hence we are writting you this letter.We agreed to
share the money thus:
[1] 20% FOR THE ACCOUNT OWNER [YOU]
[2] 80% FOR US [THE OFFICALS]
It is from the 80% that we wish to commense the
importation business.Please ,note that this
transaction is 100% safe and we hope to commense the
transaction latest seven[7 ]days from the date of the
receipt of the following information bellow.
[A] COMPANY´S NAME BENEFICIARY OF ACCOUNT.
[B] YOUR PERSONAL TELEPHONE NUMBER AND FAX NUMBERS.
[C] BANK ACCOUNT/SORT/ABA/ROUTING NUMBERS
WHICH THE FUND WILL BE TRANSFERED TO .
[D]YOUR BANK ADDRESSS,TELEPHONE NUMBERS/FAX NUMBERS.
The above information will enable us commense the
transfer of this funds into your account in your
country without delay and also to open an account in
your name.We are looking forward to doing this
business with you and solict your confidentiality in
this transaction.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using
the above telephone number or email address,.I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending project when i hear from you.
Allah Hafiz
Dr Mohammed
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