Subject: awaiting your urgent response

From: "FEMI JOHNSON" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 12:19:19 +0100

Dear Sir

             URGENT BUSINESS REQUEST 
I am a Solicitor resident and practicing in Lagos, Nigeria and I am using this correspondence to urgently seek and request your assistance and cooperation in a sensitive but highly beneficial financial arrangement. 
An important client of mine whose details I cannot release at this point has implored me to contact a reliable and trustworthy partner overseas to urgently receive and handle funds totaling TWENTY ONE MILLION US DOLLARS(US$21.M)in CASH presently lodged in a security/finance outfit in overseas. Due to my 
client inability to travel out of the country presently and the fact that we continue to accumulate huge debts daily as long as this consignment 
remains in the security company we need a friend and partner to proceed as soon as possible and handle it as might be instructed. 

We have agreed in principle to give twenty-percent (25%) of the total sum to whom ever shall handle this funds for us while the remaining sixty-five percent (65%)shall be for my client and ten-percent (10%) for me as the attorney as soon as you are ready to proceed and retrieve this cash on our behalf we shall furnish you with the details and nformation you will need. 
Please be rest assured that this arrangement is absolutely risk free and cannot implicate you in any way yet I implore you to handle this matter 
with urgency and utmost confidence even if you do not intend to execute the project for us. Whatever is the case please acknowledge receipt of this mail via the above Email address and if your response is positive we shall proceed immediately without any delay. 

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation and hoping to hear from you soon. 

Yours sincerely, 

Barrister Femi Johnson (LLB).