Assist Please.

["Engr C. Onoraro" <conoraro at katamail dot com>]

ATTN:MY DEAR FRIEND,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
I have decided to contact you by email due to the urgency of
this transaction,as we have been reliably informed that it
will take at least a minimum of two to three weeks for a
normal post to reach you,so we decided it is best using the
e-mail,which is quicker and also to enable us meet up with
the first payment quarter for the year 2003 which has
already begun.
However, let me start by introducing myself properly to you.
I am Engr. Collins Onoraro Director General in the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and I presently head a
seven man tenders board incharge of Contract Awards and
Payment Approvals.

I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and
reputable person to handle a very confidential business
transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of
money to a foreign account requiring maximum CONFIDENCE, My
colleagues and I are Top Officials of the Federal Government
Contract Review and Award Panel. Our duties include
Evaluation, Vetting, Approval for payment of Contract jobs
done for the N.N.P.C and other Federal government
corporations.
The source of this funds is as follows: In the second
quarter of 2001 this committee was mandated to review and
award contracts to the tune of US$400 million US dollars to
a group of five firms for the supply, construction and
installation of Oil Pipe lines in Warri and Port-Harcourt.
During this process my colleagues and I decided and agreed
among ourselves to deliberately over-inflate the total
contract sum from US$400 million to US$450 million United
States dollars with the main intention of sharing the
remaining sum of US$50 miilion amongst ourselves.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has since last year
approved the sum of US$450 million for us as the contract
sum, and the sum of US$400 million has also been paid to the
foreign companies concerned as contract entitlements for the
various contracts done, but since the company is entiltled
to US$400 million dollars only, we are now left with US$50
million dollars balance in the account which we intend to
disburse amongst ourselves,but by virtue of our positions as
civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot do this
by ourselves, as we are prohibited by the Code of Conduct
Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/or operating
foreign accounts in our names while still in Government
service, making it impossible for us to acquire the money in
our names right now.
I have therefore, been delegated as a matter of trust and
urgency by my colleagues in the panel to look for an
overseas partner into whose account we would transfer the
sum of US$50 million. Hence we are writing you this letter.
My Colleagues and I have agreed that if you or your company
can act as the beneficiary of this funds on our behalf, you
or your Company will retain 30% of the total amount (US$50
million), while 60% will be for us (OFFICIALS) and the
remaining 10% will be used in offsetting all debts/expenses
and Taxes incurred both local and foreign in the cause of
this transfer. Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at
this juncture is enormous. In return we demand your complete
honesty and trust.
You must however NOTE that this transaction will be strictly
based on the following terms and conditions as we have
stated below;
a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy
and confidentiality.
c) That you will not ask for more share or try to sit on the
funds once it is under your custody, or any form of
blackmail.
d) That upon receipt of the funds you will release the funds
as instructed by us after you have removed your share of 30%
from the total amount.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and risk
free.
The $50,000,000.00 will be shared thus:
1)You as the foreign partner 30%
2)My colleagues and I 65%
3)Expenses as incured by both(yourself and us) parties 5%
I will bring you into the complete picture of this pending
business transaction when I have heard from you and also
receive your confidential telephone and fax numbers to
enable to hasten communication.
Best regards.
Engr. Collins Onoraro.