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REF: CONFIDENTIAL.
BUISNESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$42.462M(FORTY-TWO MILLION,FOUR
HUNDRED ANDSIXTY TWO THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) & BUISNESS
PARTNERSHIP.
Dear Sir,
Compliment of season,i do hope you recieve this email in good conditions of health. First, I must solicit your strictest confidents in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as been utterly confidential and top secret,I came across your contact through International Business Directory Service via Internet as i search for a trust worthy and reputable person abroad to assist us .
We are top officials from the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing (FMW&H),Federal Ministry of Finance and the presidency, making up the
contract review panel(CRP) set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria
to review contracts awarded by the past military administration. In the
course of our work in the CRP,We discovered that, this fund which
resulted from grossly over-invoiced contract executed for the FMW&H during the
last administration. The companies that executed the contract have been
duly paid and the contracts commissioned leaving the sum of US$42.462M
floating in the Escrow, I have therefore been mandated as a matter of
trust by my colleagues in the panel to look for an oversea partner to whom we
could transfer the sum of S$42.462M by legally subcontracting the
contract entitlement to your company. We have agreed that the funds will be
shared thus after it has been transferred into your account.
(1) 35% of the money will go to your account for acting as beneficiary
of the fund.
(2) 60% to us the government officials (we wish to commence an
incorporation business in conjunction with you.
(3) 5% has been set aside as an abstract projection to both parties for
incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth
conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen working days of
commencement after receipt of the following information from you. your
full name and company name, address, company details and
activities,private telephone & fax numbers. this information will enable us to make
application and lodge claims to the concerned ministries and agencies in favor of
your company and it is pertinent to state that this transaction is based
entirely on trust as the solar bank draft or certified cheque drawable in any of
the Central Bank of Nigeria correspondent Bankers in Europe is going to
be made in your name.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter through the Email for
now.
Thanks God Bless.
Yours faithfully,
MR.MUSA AKIM
ALHAJI.IBRAHIM ALIU
BUISNESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$42.462M(FORTY-TWO MILLION,FOUR
HUNDRED ANDSIXTY TWO THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) & BUISNESS
PARTNERSHIP.
Dear Sir,
Compliment of season,i do hope you recieve this email in good conditions of health. First, I must solicit your strictest confidents in this transaction, this is by virtue of its nature as been utterly confidential and top secret,I came across your contact through International Business Directory Service via Internet as i search for a trust worthy and reputable person abroad to assist us .
We are top officials from the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing (FMW&H),Federal Ministry of Finance and the presidency, making up the
contract review panel(CRP) set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria
to review contracts awarded by the past military administration. In the
course of our work in the CRP,We discovered that, this fund which
resulted from grossly over-invoiced contract executed for the FMW&H during the
last administration. The companies that executed the contract have been
duly paid and the contracts commissioned leaving the sum of US$42.462M
floating in the Escrow, I have therefore been mandated as a matter of
trust by my colleagues in the panel to look for an oversea partner to whom we
could transfer the sum of S$42.462M by legally subcontracting the
contract entitlement to your company. We have agreed that the funds will be
shared thus after it has been transferred into your account.
(1) 35% of the money will go to your account for acting as beneficiary
of the fund.
(2) 60% to us the government officials (we wish to commence an
incorporation business in conjunction with you.
(3) 5% has been set aside as an abstract projection to both parties for
incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of this
transaction.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth
conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen working days of
commencement after receipt of the following information from you. your
full name and company name, address, company details and
activities,private telephone & fax numbers. this information will enable us to make
application and lodge claims to the concerned ministries and agencies in favor of
your company and it is pertinent to state that this transaction is based
entirely on trust as the solar bank draft or certified cheque drawable in any of
the Central Bank of Nigeria correspondent Bankers in Europe is going to
be made in your name.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter through the Email for
now.
Thanks God Bless.
Yours faithfully,
MR.MUSA AKIM
ALHAJI.IBRAHIM ALIU
For those that fail to understand what this is, the above is another flavor of the infamous Nigerian online scamming scheme. Despite efforts to curbed this kind of swindling, they're still out there.
So how can we recognize its a scam, based on the example above? For one thing, they call themselves as "top" officials, but in reality no high-ranking government official - even the egomaniac ones - would label themselves as "top," simply "government official."
Another is that, if they truly are government ministers, then why on earth would they stoop on this kind of correspondence? Secretaries handle these and those have above-average skills in spelling and grammar, clearly not something like the above.
They also claimed that they learned of me from this International Business Directory Service, which I have never heard of before much less a member of. Note also that this time they had not asked for cash or payment up front...but the twist is they say they need your personal and company info, which is even more risky than coughing up money.
This is just one of many, many variations. Beware
another bunch of people that don't have anything to do all day: THE SPAMMERS! Yesterday someone posted a message in my guestbook... full of links 
it was spam, so I deleted it. Maybe he thought that I could leave the message there? 
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