Nigerian scam letter: Luis Mantins

NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER FROM

LUIS MANTINS

Date: Sunday, August 18, 2002 04:07:27

Subject: Interested?

Dear Sir/Mrs/Miss,
After due deliberation with my colleagues, l decided to forward to you this proposal.
We want a reliable, trustworthy and God fearing person who could assist us to transfer the sum of US$10.5M (Ten Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars only) into his or her account.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced bill from a contract awarded by us under the budget, allocated to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract has been executed. Commissioned, the contractor has been paid his actual cost for the contract. We are now left with the balance of US$10.5M as the over-invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use.

I want you to understand why i need your help now is that under our protocol division, we the civil servants are forbidden to operate or own a foreign account, we dont want to save the money here because of the bad political economic and falling business here, we have agreed to come and meet with you in your country and discuss how and what to invest the money into ok? this is why l contacted you for an assistance.

We have agreed that you will be entitled to:
20 PERCENT FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE, did you agreed on this percentage?.
70 PERCENT FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES.
10 PERCENT SET ASIDE FOR ANY EXPENSES INCURRED DURING THIS BUSINESS.
and whatever left from the 10% will be shared equally. As you may rightly want to know l got your address from your Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
I am a top official with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). We the officials involved in the deal have put in many years in services to our Ministries. We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and to most of us, this is a life time opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
This transaction is very much free from all sorts of risks, so this is 100% legal transaction you dont have to be afriad to deal with us.
To enable us get this fund paid into your account quickly without delay, we will need your assurance that you will act as the owner of the money (US$10.5M U.S DOLLARS) the paying bank here in Nigeria (Central bank of Nigeria) will contact you immediately to transfer the money into your account. if we corporate in doing business together.

You may be required to sign the fund release authority in our Central Bank. I will advise you on what to do ok?
Three officials will come to your country to arrange for our share.
All these will only take us 5 working days to claim and transfer this fund into your account right immediately from the day we receive the requirements.
For confidential and security of this transaction, all we require from you is your:
[1] YOUR FULL NAME
[2] PRIVATE TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS.
[3] YOUR BANK NAME AND ADDRESS, VIABLE ACCOUNT NUMBER that will be forwarded to the Central Bank of Nigeria for immediately release and tranfer of the money.

On receipt of this informations i shall send to you the detailed information and what to do next immediately without delay.

[sic] above; so that we can commence on the process of the paper work to claim this fund [US$10.5M] on your Name.
NOTE: Your discussion regarding to this transaction should be limited because we are still in government service. Let honesty and trust be our watch word throughout this transaction.
I awaits your prompt reply through <luism1@uymail.com>

Best Regards,
Mr. Luis Mantins

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