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I got this one today...

FROM: JAMES MASUMA.

DIRECTOR OF PROJECT, MMNR,
SOUTH AFRICA.

EMAIL:jamesmasuma@departmentofminingandquarry.net

DATE: 6th-Oct-2005

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT.

I am Dr. James Masuma, Director of Project Implementation in the
Department of Mineral and Quarry. I am making this contact with you
based
on the committee's need for an individual or company who is willing to
assist us with a solution to a money transfer venture. First and
foremost
I apologized using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business
of
this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access
reposed on this medium.


In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and
honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and
confidentiality. I have decided to seek a confidential co-o! peration
with
you in the execution of the deal described here under for the benefit
of
all Parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the
nature of this transaction. Within the Ministry of Mining and Natural
Resources where I work as Director of Project Implementation and with
the
Co-operation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as
overdue payment bills totaling Fourteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars (US$14,500,000.) Which we want to transfer abroad
with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to
receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company
account to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in the
circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does
not
allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole
transaction.


This amount $14.5m represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm,
which
we the officials Over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in
the
tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to
remit by Key tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank
account you will provide by filing in an application through the
Ministry
of Justice here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and
privileges
of the former contractor to you. I have the authority of my partners
involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the
transaction, your share of the sum will be 30% of the$14.5 million, 60%
for us and 5% for taxation and Miscellaneous expenses and while balance
5%
will go to charity organization.


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

Sir, Endeavor to contact me immediately through my email if you are
interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for
another foreign partner to carry out this deal.


I want to assure you that my partners and I are in a position to make
the
payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong
Assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and please,
remember to treat this matter very confidential, because we will not
comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active
Government
Service. Once again, remember that time is of great essence in this
transaction.


I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours Faithfully,
James Masuma(Dr).
 
Send 'em this - changing names/countries/$ amounts/ass't lies as needed:

Dear DR.ONORIODE BOBOLO,

It is so good to hear from a fellow-countryman, having been raised and lived for many years
in our most beautiful homeland, Nigeria. I want to send you my sincere thanks and gratitude
for your kind offer of USD$25,000.000.00 (TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLARS) for
taking part in this funds transfer transaction.

However, I am a businessman too, and I make my living transferring large sums of money from
and to my friends, relatives, and business associates in Nigeria. Therefore, I know that you
would agree, that in order to participate in this wonderful opportunity, I must have an
advance monetary commitment from you -- a good faith gesture on your part -- in order to
proceed.

Therefore, I ask that you deposit just 10% ($2,500,000) of the $25M into my PayPal account
as an indication that you truly possess the funds and are actually authorized to release
them. Using the online PayPal service is a very convenient and secure way to transfer funds.
All you need do is access the PayPal web site -- http://www.paypal.com -- open a PayPal
account, deposit the funds into your new account, and then transfer the money into my
existing account, which has already been set up to receive the $25M.

You only need my email address, which you already have, to transfer the funds into my
account. Therefore, the complete safety of your account, as well as mine, is guaranteed and
insured unconditionally. You have asked that this matter be handled with the strictest
confidentiality, and I will agree to that condition, provided that the transfer takes place
in a reasonable period of time, say by Friday, 5 October.

If the money has not been received by that time, I must assume that you are not making a
legitimate offer, and that you might be someone other than who you say you are -- although I
can tell by the exceptional language of your email, that is probably not the case. However,
if that is the case, then I will be forced to embark upon a most unpleasant course of action
that I would prefer not to undertake.

Because I have so many loyal friends in the Government of Nigeria and the Military, and many
close ties within the Security Service where you work, it would be quite easy to locate your
office and your home, as well as learn the identities of your friends and relatives.

I truly don't believe that you would want to jeopardize their health and well-being, and
your own future. I will access my PayPal account on next Saturday to verify that your
good-faith payment has been made. Once that takes place, we can move forward with the final
transfer.

I trust that you will not disappoint me in this matter, since the consequences for
non-compliance could be quite severe. I look forward with great anticipation to working with
you.

Yours faithfully,

Inna Gadda Da Vida, JD, MMB,
President & CEO
U.S./Nigeria Funds Transfer Organization
Beverly Hills, CA
 
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