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From: Emmanuel Egoamaka <[email protected]>Good Day,
Reply: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 03:51:45 +0400
Subject: Please Response Needed
Please pardon me for contacting you through this medium. I found it
interesting and decided to contact you for a business transaction. I
wish to assure you that everything about this transaction is genuine
and real. I contacted you after a detailed search for a reliable and
trust-worthy person who can do business with us and at the same time
give our money at the end of the transaction. We have resolved to
follow all laid down official and legal procedures which foreign
contractors do follow in my country.
I am also the secretary of the Tender Board of the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). I have been sourcing for a good, trusted
and honorable person who can front for us in the transfer of the money
mentioned earlier until you were recommended to me by a reliable and
trusted colleague in the oil and gas industry.
In August 2012, the above contract was awarded to a South Korean
company by our board on the promise that we will receive 10% kickback
on completion of the contract. The total amount involved on this
contract was US$215 million. The contract was to lay gas pipelines
from Natural Liquefied Gas Plant in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State in the
South-south region of Niger Delta area to Kabala Doki in Kaduna State,
North-central area of Nigeria. The length covers 1650 Kilometers. The
contract has long been completed, tested and commissioned. The total
sum of US$215,000,000 has been paid by the Federal Government, leaving
unpaid the sum of US$21.5m representing the 10% kickback agreed with
the Korean company.
My problem is that we cannot just collect this sum of money without
the assistance of a foreign partner who will stand as the subsidiary
of the Korean company or front for us and receive the sum of US$21.5
million in his account. This is because we are government officials
and we cannot own any foreign account and we also cannot claim to have
executed any contract.
If we commence immediately, it will take 7 working days to get all the
papers filed and approval received and the fund transferred to your
nominated account overseas. I will personally supervise the project.
On receiving the money in your account, you will be entitled to 30%
thereof. And from there, you or your company will be introduced to the
Federal Government of Nigeria for future contracts in the oil and gas
industry.
Upon your confirmation that the fund has been transferred to your
account, I will meet with you to disburse accordingly and my share
could as well be managed by you for investment in your country.
Looking forward to hearing from you soon and have a wonderful day
Best regards,
Dr. Emmanuel Egoamaka.