Very Urgent Assistance

["Bode Thomas" <bthomas993 at lycos dot com>]

Dr Bode Thomas,
No. 16 Kingsway road,
Ikoyi, Lagos, 
Nigeria.
E-mail: bthomas993@lycos.com   
22nd, January, 2002
                           			            

Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue of its nature as being 
utterly confidential and classified. 
I got your e-mail address from an internet listing, as I will want to immediately put your mind 
to rest in that regard. I therefore must apologize for infringing on your privacy. 

We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel, and due to our very 
membership of this panel, we are privy 
to the information I am about to reveal to you in trust and confidence as obtains in the 
urgent business relationship we solicit for. 
We crave your indulgence for total confidentiality. 
 
We are interested in the importation of goods into our country with funds, which are 
presently trapped in this same country, Nigeria. 
In order to commence this business, we solicit your assistance in the area of FREEING the 
said trapped funds and ultimately, 
your RECIEPT and CUSTODIAN of these funds ABROAD.

Explicitly, the source of this fund is as follows:
During the regime of our late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha, the then Government 
officials set up private companies and lobbied 
the award of contracts to their companies, these contract were grossly over-invoiced in 
various Ministries. Fortunately, the NEW CIVILIAN 
Government set up a Contract Review Panel (C.R.P) where we hold exalted designations 
and we have successfully identified several 
inflated contract funds, which are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria (C.B.N). 
We desire to release a particular contract fund 
from the very several, but due to our position as civil servants and members of this Contract 
Review Panel, we cannot acquire this fund in 
our names and without a much needed foreign assistance. I have therefore been delegated 
as a matter of trust by my colleagues to source 
for an overseas partner INTO whose ACCOUNT the sum of US$31,000,000.00 (Thirty-one 
Million United States Dollars) being the contract 
funds of this particular contract WILL BE PAID BY TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFER, hence this 
written request.

We propose a sharing ratio upon the success of this transaction as thus:
1.  70% for us (the officials)
2.  20% for the FOREIGN PARTNER (you)
3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses incurred by all 
parties involved during the course of this transaction.


Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and we hope THAT THE FUNDS CAN 
ARRIVE YOUR ACCOUNT within ten (10) banking 
days from the date of our receipt of your following details .
A SUITABLE NAME AND A CORRESPONDING BANK ACCOUNT INTO WHICH THE 
FUNDS CAN BE PAID.

The above information will enable us write letters of claim and job description respectively. 
This way, we will use your company's name 
(or as applicable) to prepare the necessary documentary foundation and apply for payments 
and re-award the contract in your company name.

We are looking forward to doing business with you and solicit your confidentiality in this 
transaction.

Please acknowledge receipt of this letter using the following tel/fax: 234 1 7747907 so I 
can bring you into  the complete picture of this pending 
project as soon as possible.

Yours Faithfully, 
Dr Bode Thomas.