Sir, I am using this most secure and confidential medium available to me to seek your cooperation in this project that would be of immense mutual benefit. Even as we do not know each other before now, we both know that trust is earned though it is not given out lightly. Also, we both know that almost all international transactions are done on trust. I am Dr. Bakari Bashir, the Director, Petroleum and Pipeline marketing Board (PPMB). We are the international sales and distribution unit of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Hence our office is located here in London, as we liaise with the London International Petroleum Exchange. I have US$31.5M (Thirty-one Million, and Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), which resulted from allocation and sales of excess crude oil to foreign buyers. The proceeds were not entered in the financial statement of the Petroleum and Pipeline marketing Board as regularly submitted to the Government. This money is safely floating in our (PPMB) account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Recently due to allegations of corruption in the Nigerian Oil sector, the new Government of President Umaru Yar`Adua set up a panel to look into the past activities of all the companies and subsidiaries in the oil sector ?though it抯 a normal things when new Governments come in. This is what prompted me to contact you. I have to move this US$31.5M out of the PPMB account as urgently as possible. Unfortunately, I cannot just withdraw or make the money disappear without giving proper account of it. So the idea is to have a foreign partner whom the money will be paid out to, in the form of payment for a contract he or she (you) did for the PPMB on behalf of the Petroleum Ministry/Government of Nigeria. Your gender, occupation or line of business does not matter at all. I am therefore seeking your consent to position you to have this money released directly to you by the Central Bank of Nigeria, in the form of a payment for a contract service you did for the PPMB. I would secure backdated documents that would mean and prove that you actually did a contract for the Nigerian Government, for which this contract payment (US$31.5Million) is due. Remember, I am the director of the PPMB. With the documents, I would hire an Attorney who would file the documents with the Central Bank of Nigeria for immediate release of the US$31.5Million to you. I will allow you to keep 25% of the total amount as your compensation/share. The remaining 75% shall be for me, though I would still need you to help me make good investments in your country. Call, fax or e-mail immediately to furnish me with your full names and address, your occupation or company's name, your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication. Also send me the name page of your international passport or any other form of identification of your good self. The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter of procedure for the release of the money to you as the bona-fide beneficiary. And I have to use the information to raise the necessary backdated documents that would be needed to process the US$31.5M as a contract payout. I assure you that the transaction will be concluded in 10 working days. There is no risk whatsoever involved. Be assured that as the PPMB director: I am on top of the situation all the time and there will be no risk. The claim would be fronted by an Attorney, and executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. Lastly, I plead that absolute honesty, sincerity, confidentiality, reliability and trust should be our watchword throughout this transaction considering my official position here. Treat as strictly confidential for obvious reasons as you know I am still in service. I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation as I look forward to a healthy business relationship with you now and in future. Warm regards, Dr. Bakari Bashir. Mobile: (44) 7031911536/7031911930/7031911118
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