Urgent prposal

[Chika Momoh]

Dr Joseph Dosu
Lagos, Nigeria.
19th June 2002


Attention President/C.E.O
                   
Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

Firstly I must solicit your strictest confidence in this subject. This is by 
virtue of its nature as 
being utterly confidential and top secret. A member of the Nigeria Export 
Promotion Council 
(N.E.P.C.) who was part of the federal government delegation to your country 
during a trade 
exhibition gave your particulars to me. I have decided to seek a confidential 
operation with 
you in the execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all the 
parties and 
hope that you keep it top secret because of the nature of the business.

Within the ministry of petroleum resources where I work as a director of 
engineering and 
projects, and with the co-operation of four other very top officials, we have 
under our 
control as overdue contract payments, bills totaling Thirty One Million United 
States Dollars, 
which we want to transfer to a foreign account, with the assistance and 
co-operation of a 
foreign company to receive the said funds on our behalf or a reliable foreign 
individual 
account to receive the funds.

The source of the fund is as follows: during the last military government here 
in Nigeria 
which lasted bout eleven months, government officials set up companies and 
awarded 
themselves various contracts which were grossly over-invoiced in various 
ministries.  The 
present civilian government is not aware of the atrocities committed by their 
predecessors 
and as a result, we have a lot of such over invoiced contract payment s pending 
which we 
have identified floating at the central bank of Nigeria ready for payment.  
However by virtue 
of our position as civil servants, we cannot acquire this money in our names.  
I was 
therefore delegated as a matter of urgency by my colleagues to look for an over 
seas 
partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of  US$31,000,000.00 
(THIRTY 
ONE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS) hence we are writing you this letter.

 the present civilian government is determined to pay foreign contractors l 
debts owed 
so as to maintain an amiable relationship with foreign governments and 
non-government 
financial agencies.  We have decided to include our bills for approval with the 
co-operation 
of some officials of the federal ministry of finance (F.M.F) and the central 
bank of Nigeria 
(C.B.N).  We are seeking your assistance in providing us with a good company 
account or 
any other offshore bank account into which we can remit this money by acting 
our main 
partner and trustee or acting as the original contractor.  This we can do by 
swapping of 
account information and changing of beneficiary and other pertinent information 
to apply for 
payment.  By this act, we would be using your company information to apply for 
payment, 
and prepare letters of claim and job description on behalf of your company.  
This process 
would be an internal arrangement with the departments concerned.

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be 
willing to assist 
us in this transaction, your share as compensation will be us$6.2 million 
(20%), us$21.7 
million (70%) for us and us$3.1 (10%) for 
taxation and miscellaneous expenses.

The business itself is 100% safe, provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and 
confidentiality.  Also your area of specialization is not m hindrance to the 
successful 
execution of this transaction.  I have reposed my confidence in you and hope 
that you will 
not disappoint me. 

I will bring the complete picture of the transaction to your 
knowledge when I have heard from you.

Thanks for your co-operation,

Yours faithfully,

Dr Joseph Dosu

NB: PLEASE SEND YOUR RESPONSE BY FAX TO MY DIRECT AND CONFIDENTIAL 
FAX: 234 1 7591666.