[Primipassi] ASSISTANCE NEEDED

[Dr. Williams Banigo]

DR. WILLIAMS BANIGO
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT,
LAGOS, NIGERIA


             URGENT   &   CONFIDENTIAL
Best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained in this letter.Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first solicit you to treat it with  utmost confidentiality, as this is required for its success.

My colleagues and 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 transfer into your account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this financial quarter.

The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime, government officials awarded contracts that were grossly over-invoiced to Contractors. The present civilian 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 colleagues 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.$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million, five hundred  thousand U.S. Dollars). That is why I am writing you this mail.

We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready and able to have access to them. We intend to effect the transfer within a few days from the date of receipt of the following information:

Your name, company’s name, address and telephone and fax numbers. The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. This way, we will use your company’s name to apply for the payment and backdate the  award of the contract to 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 and, I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you.

Best regards,
Dr. Williams Banigo

NOTE:  YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO SEND ANY FUND TO EFFECT THE TRANSFER AS WE HAVE ALREADY SET ASIDE MONEY TO DO THIS. YOU SHOULD ALSO LET ME KNOW WHAT PERCENTAGE YOU INTEND TO GET FOR RENDERING US THIS ASSISTANCE, SO THAT I CAN TELL OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COMMITTEE.