Scam o Rama 13

Postmarked 11/24/98 from Nigeria to Berkeley. A fine example of Lad; true to form, but with amusing variations. The recipient thinks 10% is a pretty small payoff to launder 23 million. (That's if there was in fact any money to be had!) I like how they spell out numbers, to be sure you understand:
$23,000,000.00 (twenty-three million, U.S. dollars)
fourteen (14) banking days heh heh heh!

Proposal For Participatory Financial Transaction

ENGR. BRUNO ADAMS
225, KIGSWAY ROAD
IKOYI, LAGOS-NIGERIA

TEL/FAX: 234 90 402604
TEL/FAX: 234 1 5850593
October 12th 1998.

Dear Sir,

PROPOSAL FOR PARTICIPATORY FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

I would like to firstly send you the best of wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.

Before going into the details of my proposal to you, I must first solicit you to treat with the utmost confidentiality, as this is required for its success. An associate who assured me of your ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of great magnitude involving a pending financial transaction requiring maximum confidentiality recommended you to me.

My colleagues are I are senior officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria's Contracts Review Panel who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria. In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance to enable us to transfer into your account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude this transfer before the end of the fourth quarter of this fiscal year.

This funds was accumulated through undeclared windfall from sales of Crude Oil during the Gulf War. During the last military regime in Nigeria, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and parastatals. The present military government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding amounts. My collegues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes. However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in Nigeria. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the sum of U.S. $23,000,000.00 (twenty-three million, U.S. dollars). That is why I am writing you this letter.

We have agreed to share the money to be transfered into your account, if you agree with our proposition as follows:

(i) 25% to the account holder (you).
(ii) 65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both you and us) incidental to the actualisation of this project.

We wish to invest our shares of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to them without rasing any eyebrows here at home. Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14) banking days from the date of receipt of the following information through the telephone/fax number stated above: Your bank's name, address, telephone and fax numbers: your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers, and the account number into which the funds should be paid.

The above information will enable us to write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your company's name or your name to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract to you or your company. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above telephone/fax numbers. I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you. Do not go through the international operator (or AT&T) when lines are busy. Always call direct. This is to further ensure confidentiality.

Best regards,

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ENGR. BRUNO ADAMS

 


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