[Flug] Reply (Urgent)

[Dr. James Ogonor]

Dr  James Ogonor
Lagos, Nigeria.
22nd July 2002
Fax: 234 1 7591666


Attention: President/CEO


REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

Firstly I must solicit your strictest confidence in this subject. This is by virtue of its nature as 
being utterly confidential and top secret. A member of the Nigeria Export 
Promotion Council (N.E.P.C.) who was part of the federal government delegation to your 
country during a trade exhibition gave your particulars to me. I have decided to 
seek a confidential operation with you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for 
the benefit of all the parties and hope that you keep it top secret because of 
the 
nature of the business.

Within the ministry of petroleum resources where I work as a director of engineering and 
projects, and with the co-operation of four other very top officials, we have 
under our control as overdue contract payments, bills totalling Thirty One Million United 
States Dollars, which we want to transfer to a foreign account, with the 
assistance and co-operation of a foreign company to receive the said funds on our behalf 
or a reliable foreign individual account to receive the funds.

The source of the fund is as follows: during the last military government here in Nigeria 
which lasted bout eleven months, government officials set up companies and 
Awarded themselves various contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various 
ministries.  The present civilian government is not aware of the atrocities committed 
by their predecessors and as a result, we have a lot of such over invoiced pending 
contract 
payments  which we have identified floating at the central bank of Nigeria 
ready for payment.
However by virtue of our position as civil servants, we cannot acquire this money in our 
names.  I was therefore delegated as a matter of urgency by my colleagues to 
look for an over seas partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of  US
$31,000,000.00 (THIRTY ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) hence we are 
writing you this letter.

The present civilian government is determined to pay foreign contractors  debts owed so as 
to maintain an amiable relationship with foreign governments and non-
government financial agencies.  We have decided to include our bills for approval with the 
co-operation of some officials of the federal ministry of finance (F.M.F) and 
the central bank of Nigeria (C.B.N).  We are seeking your assistance in providing us with a 
good company account or any other offshore bank account into which we 
can remit this money by
acting our main partner and trustee or acting as the original contractor.  This we can do by 
swapping of account information and changing of beneficiary and other 
pertinent information to apply for payment.  By this act, we would be using your company 
information to apply for payment, and prepare letters of claim and job 
description on behalf of your company.  This process would be an internal arrangement 
with 
the departments concerned. I have the authority of my partners involved to 
propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction, your share as 
compensation will be us$6.2 million (20%), us$21.7 million (70%) for us and us$3.1 (10%) 
for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
 
The business itself is 100% safe, provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and 
confidentiality.  Also your area of specialization is not m hindrance to the successful 
execution of this transaction.  I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will 
not disappoint me.

 I will bring the complete picture of the transaction to your knowledge when I have heard 
from you.
 
Thank you for your co-operation,
 
Yours faithfully, 
Dr James Ogonor