urgent business/investment deal

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Thu Mar 14 23:18:03 2002

>minespower steel wrote:

> VERY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS ATTENTION STRICTLY FOR YOU ONLY
>
> FROM THE DESK OF
> ALHAJI USMAN YERIMA.
> IKOYI, LAGOS.
> PHONE;234-803-3088-100
> BUSINESS ATTENTION.
> URGENT BUSINESS DEAL
>
> I am pleased to send my greetings to you, I know
> this letter will definitely come to you as a surprise package, and you will be wondering how i came about your contact, actaully, i came about your contact when i was browsing through the internet, on looking for a trustworthy, confidential and honest partner with whom i can transact this business with, i then came about your contact and decided to contact you
>
> I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as the chairman of the contractReview/Audit
> Committee scrutinizing all record covering executed contract awarded byprevious
> military government of Nigeria. My colleagues and I have uncovered afloating
> amount of USD$22,500,000.00 (TWENTY TWO MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
> U.S.DOLLARS), without a clear beneficiary owing to a deliberate act of over
> invoicing and inflating of contract value by some government officials.This
> money (USD$22.5M),has already been approved for payment by the ministry of
> Mines, Powerand Steel and is secured under . As top civil servants we are not authorized
> to operate foreign bank account and this is why we want to use your bank account
> to transfer this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign
> partner and will now regularize the approvals to you as the trust beneficiary of
> the contractsum.As soon as we receive your acceptance, we shall inform you of
> the necessary requirements from you to facilitate transfer. Let us use this
> opportunity toexploit the benefit of this sum. We have resolved to give 20% of
> the totalsum as compensation for your assistance, 70% is for me and my partners
> here in Nigeria, 10% is set asideto cover every expenses made in the course of
> the transaction. Note that this should be confidential. Send your urgentresponse
> strictly through my E-mail: usmanyerima_at_onebox.com,as this is a confidential mailbox Please do not fail to reply
> me with your private Telephone and fax numbers for easy communication.
> Yours faithfully,
>
> THANKS AND GOD BLESS
>
> USMAN YERIMA
>
> ps; while I await your reply at most by tuesday, if you do not reply, I
> will have no choice but to find another alternative.

Anyone interested in seeing where the money should be sent? Should be able
to have a bit of fun. I though there had been enough publicity on this one that
everyone would remember the Nigeria scam by now.

Also, do any of the police in Nigeria care? Can police in any other
country trace this sort of thing? Or do the police just say to toss
it and forget it?

Better have a well protected site - they may just be sending back a virus!
Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 23:18:03 GMT