LETTER FROM LAGOS

A letter like this was sent to several companies I know. I got one as well.
Would you believe that some persons really thought it was for real. One of them
even appeared in a TV news broadcast to admit he went to Lagos, Nigeria to
get screwed up.

BUSINESS PROPOSAL-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Babatunde A Bello, the Chief Engineer to the Federal Government of Nigeria
Contract Award & Monitoring Committee in the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).

Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a conglomerate of foreign companies in
NNPC into an overseas account which we expect you to provide for us.

BENEFIT: For providing the account where we shall remit the money, 65% will be
for me and my partners, while 5% has been mapped out from the total sum to
cover any expenses that may be incurred during the course of this, both local
and international expenses.

I would require the following:

1. One blank copy of your Company Letter Head Paper, duly signed and stamped.

2. One blank copy of your Company Proforma Invoice, duly signed and stamped.

3. Your bank account number and bank address and information.

But if these documents could not be sent blank, be kind to request for a "text",
what is to be typed on these documents, as we shall be glad to fax it to you.

The above documents would be used to make formal applications as a matter of
procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your account.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects of the
nature described here, the asumption is that your company won a major contract
and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than not, big trading
companies or firms for execution of such contracts.

We have strong and reliable connection and contacts at the Central Bank of
Nigeria and the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubts that all this
money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to
assist us in this deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we
shall through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the
concerned Government Ministry for 100% security.

We are Civil Servants and will not miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get
rich. We want this money to be transferred to the overseas account for us, before
the present military government hands over to a democratically elected
government.

Please contact me immediately through telephone or fax message whether or not
you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another
foreign partner to carry out this deal. If you are interested, send me the required
documents as mentioned through my above fax number only, as time is of essence
in this business, I wait in anticipation of your co-operation.

Yours faithfully…

I wonder how many persons who really made a try?