Dear Sir,
Based on the recommendation made to me by a reputable
official of the commercial sector of the South African
Chamber of Commerce who guaranteed me of your
reliability and trustworthiness in business dealings,
I wish to entrust a large amount with you believing
that it will be of our mutual benefit; this has to be
highly confidential. If I may introduce myself, I am
Dr Ben Oguejiofor of the Nigerian Army. I was the
former Director of Projects and engineering in the
Nigerian Army; I retired recently after the handing
over to a democratically elected government in
Nigeria. I wish to crave your indulgence in this
business relationship that I will like to establish
with you.
During my 33 years in service and as the Director of
Projects in Nigeria, I was able to award some
contracts to some foreign contractors. In the process
of the award of the contracts the invoice values were
inflated to reflect twice the amounts involved in the
actual execution of the awarded contracts; the
contractors have since completed the projects and the
actual contract amount duly paid to them.
These contracts were carried out on behalf of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Kaduna
Refinery in 1992, NNPC awarded a contract to
PETRO-TECH. NIG. LTD. ; CONTRACT NO. :
NNPC/EPR/PED/001/1-44 RE 94DT for the supply of
200,000 monax axial erection of system optimizations
and commission conveyors for the Kaduna Refinery
Complex. The Project has been commissioned since
August 1996 and the Contractors have been paid their
full contract fees. It is the U$D 45.1 MILLION
over-invoiced sum that we want to remit.
Now the Project Engineer in collaboration with the
Chief Accountant of the Corporation together with
other officials of the NNPC have been able to process
the over-invoiced amount for payment
(NNPC/FAX/888/514-8). Therefore, it is in our effort
to get this money paid into a foreign account,
company/ private bank account. To this effect, I am
therefore asking for your co-operation to remit this
sum of U$D 45.1 million into your private/company^Òs
account
We have unanimously resolved to compensate you with
30% (thirty percent) of the total amount involved for
your assistance, while I and my associates take 60%
(sixty percent) of the total amount which of course
will be released to us by you after the transaction is
completed and 10% (ten percent) will be mapped out to
cover envisaged expenses by both parties in the course
of processing the documents for the transaction. For
reasons bordering on confidentiality every
message you are sending should go to my phone/fax line
in Miami, the number to call in Miami is 1 - 305 ^Ö 675
- 0185 . I need this transaction done with every sense
of urgency that it requires and I believe hearing
from you today will enable me arrange the transfer to
your account.
While I expect an immediate confirmation of your
interest in addition with your account details as well
as fax and telephone numbers which are to be sent to
me by fax, I urge of urgency and confidentiality that
it deserves and keep this transaction between you and
I alone. I am looking forward hearing from you on my
direct Tel/fax : 1 - 305 ^Ö 6-275 - 0185 in Miami,
U.S.A where
I^Òm on vacatiofor three weeks for now orall here for
confirmation 234-1-5457466lagos
Yours
Dr Ben Oguejiofor.
