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SAMPLE NIGERIAN LETTER # 4 (THE "LUIGI" VARIATION)
DR. BELLO MUHAMMED
Tel/Fax: 234-1-2694443
Tel: 234-1-2690895
Date: 10th May, 1996
ATTN: THE PRESIDENT/CEO
Dear Sir.
REQUEST FOR YOUR COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE
We are making this contact with you because of the reliable information available to us concerning your reputation and well organized company. This information is so positive as to convince us that you would be capable to provide us with a solution to a money transfer transaction of Thirty-Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,500,000.00).
We are members of the Special Committee for the Budget and Planning of the Ministry of Petroleum. This Committee is principally concerned with Appraisal and Approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards Capital Projects of the Federal Military Government of Nigeria. With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of Thirty-Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,500,000.00). This amount was accumulated through undeclared wind-fall from sales of Crude Oil during the Gulf War.
Hence together with some of the top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (N.N.P.C). the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria: we plan to transfer this amount of money Thirty-Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,500,000.00) into an overseas account by awarding a non-existent contract from my Ministry (N.N.P.C.) to this effect. Hence, we decided to contact you and ask for your assistance.
What we need from you is to provide a very vital account into which the fund will be transferred. My colleagues and I have agreed to compensate the owner of the account used for this transaction with 20% of the total amount remitted. We shall keep 79% and 10% reserved for taxes and other miscellaneous expenses.
It many interest you to know that in 1994 a similar transaction was carried out with one Signore Paolo Luigi, a Director of Milano Construction S.P.A. in Treviso - Italy with telephone number 39-49-8645031. After the agreement between us in which he was to take 10% of the total sum, 80% for us and 10% for taxes and miscellaneous. The documents were signed by him and the funds was duly transferred into his account. We were disappointed on our arrival in Italy to discover that Signore Paolo Luigi was no where to be found. This was how we lost 28.7 million USD.
This time around we need a reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do business with hence this letter to you, so if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share if the recent inflated amount of Thirty-Seven Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$37,500,000.00) is transferred into your account.
If this proposal satisfies you, then fax or phone your response using the above Tel/Fax Numbers so that we can discuss the modalities involved. Please kindly treat as urgent and strictly confidential. Reply through fax or phone. I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100% risk-free.
I look forward to your urgent reply. Thank you for your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
DR. BELLO MUHAMMED
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