A lot like #63, but they're trying harder. Every now & then we include the headers, just for grins. This one is kind of interesting, involving yet another person not the (apparent) author of the letter. What is it with using English last names as first names anyway? I wonder how that got started. But back to the matter at hand >>>

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DR.JOSEPH WAYAS.
TEL:234 1 774 9031.
FAX:234 1 759 6215.
LAGOS-NIGERIA

First of all, I sincerely pray and hope that this invitation meets you in good condition.

Through some discreet enquiries from my local chambers of Commerce and industry, you and your organization were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship. records shows your ability to handle a financial transaction of considerable amount which has formed the bedrock of my present business preposition for a partnership with you. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected executive to handle this transaction with sincerity,trust and confidentiality.

I am a member of the Federal Government Contract Award and Monitoring Committee vested with the reponsibility to review contract claims and make recommendation to the Government.

In 1997, a contract was awarded by the now defunct Military Regime to a foreign firm for the Construction of Heavy Duty Drilling Pipelines Network for the Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries and Petro-Chemical Companies which are subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$26,700,000.00 (Twenty Six Million, Seven Hundred Thousand USD). This was done deliberately by the then contract arbitractors with the intention of diverting the over-invoiced amount but unfortunately that Government was overtaken by another Military coup.

In the course of our assignment we discovered that this amount is deposited in a dormant account with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),our finding also reveal that the original contractor has been fully paid,it is this over-invoiced sum we now intend to transfer into any offshore account you will be providing us.

It is pertinent to state here that my country has no reward for hard labour and honesty because the Government has no social or welfare system for the citizenry nor has the Government establish any retirement benefit of any kind for civil servants.

Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 30% of the transferred sum while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses during the course of the transaction. It is our intention therefore, having your understanding and cooperation to invest our 60% share in importation of agricultural and oil prospecting equipment to sub-Sahara Africa, as it will be virtually impossible to retrieve our share in cash at this time.

I would require from you by return fax and phone confirmation as a matter of urgency the following:
1) Beneficiary/ Account Name and or Company Name, Address, office and home phone and fax #.
2) Name, Address, Phone and Fax # of your Bank.
3) Account # of Beneficiary, Routing, Swift or Telex # of your Bank.

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to your account.

It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of the nature described here. The assumption is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.

We have strong and reliable connections and contacts at the Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria) and the Federal Ministry of Finance and we assure you that the fund will be released and transferred if we get the co-operation of a foreign partner to assist us in this deal. As soon as the transfer is concluded we shall, through our contacts withdraw all documents used from all the relevant Government Ministries and parastatal for 100% security.

We are civil servants and we will not want to miss this opportunity .We want this money to be transferred to the overseas Account for us to safe our life after retirement and those of our children.

Please contact me immediately through my Tel # 234 1 775 0651, 234 1 774 9031 or my FAX #: 234 1 759 6215, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me to search for another foreign partner that will assist us.

Again we look forward to doing business with you and solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction.

Yours truly,
Dr.J.Wayas.
234-1-775-0651.

Another danged dormant account. For more in the same vein: