Subject: .STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

From: "Dr.James white." <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 02:11:46 +0200

NAME.DR JAMES WHITE
[email-masked]
SUBJECT.STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Foreign Liaison Office
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)                       
 Dear Sir, 
I am an accountant  with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and I am also a member of the Nigerian contract award and 
monitoring committee in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. 
Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in Germany by my committee. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$18.5Million.  The over invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the project. We now desire to transfer this money which is presently in a suspense account of the Central Bank of Nigeria. (CBN) into any overseas account which we expect you to provide for us.
For providing the account where we shall remit the money, you will be entitled to 30% of the money, 60% will be for myself and my partners, the remaining 10% would be set aside to settle all expenses incurred by both parties. 
I would require the following;
1.      Bank Name and Address
2.      Telephone , Fax Numbers of Bankers
3.      Name of Beneficiary/Company Name/Address, Account Number
4.      Confidential Telephone & Fax number of Beneficiary.
The above information would be used to make formal application as a matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to the nominated account you would provide. It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of this nature described here, the assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. We have strong and reliable connections and contacts at the apex Bank and the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all this money will be released and transferred if we get a reliable and trust worthy foreign partner to assist us in this mutual/beneficial deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded, we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government Ministries for 100% security. We are civil servants and we will not want to miss this opportunity.
Please contact me immediately through my above  whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where you are interested, send the required documents aforementioned herein without delay, as time is of the essence in this deal.
 
I await your anticipated cooperation and response.
 
Best regards,
 
DR JAMES WHITE