Did you receive an email from a "ENGR.PATRICK ZUMA" who wants "your
strictest confidence in this transaction" It's the usual "over-invoiced account" scam!
"ENGR.PATRICK ZUMA" only wants you to help them defraud the customer, that's all.
Even if this were all true, you would be committing several
felonies and would end up in prison. In reality, it is all a scam.
ENGR.PATRICK ZUMA (not his real name, obviously) hopes to con you into sending money for various "fees" to free the fortune.
If you would like a step by step
explanation of how this type of "Advance Fee Fraud" works, click here!
FROM THE OFFICE OF ENGR.PATRICK ZUMA
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS AND HOUSING,
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT OFFICE COMPLEX,
FALOMO, IKOYI - LAGOS.
Dear sir,
First, I must solicit your
strictest confidence in this transaction,this is by virtue of it's
nature as
being utterly confidential and top
secret as you were introduced
to us in confidence through the Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, foreign trade
division. We are top
officials from the Federal Ministry of Works and
Housing,(FMWH),Federal Ministry of Finance and the Presidency, making up the
Contract Review Panel (CRP) set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to
review contracts awarded by the past military administration.
In the course of our work on the CRP, we discovered this fund which
resulted from grossly over-invoiced
contracts which were executed for the FMW&H during the last
administration. The companies that executed the contracts have been duly
paid and the contracts commissioned leaving the sum of US$17.4 Million
floating in the escrow account
of the Central Bank of
Nigeria ready for payment.
I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in
the panel to look for an overseas partner to whom we could transfer the sum
of US$17.4M legally subcontracting the entitlement to your company. This is
bearing in mind that our civil
service code of conduct forbids us from owning foreign company or running
foreign account while in government
service hence the need for an overseas partner.
We have agreed that the funds will be shared thus
after it has been paid into your account:
(1) 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the
beneficiary of the fund.
(2) 10% has been set aside as an abstract projection
for reimbursment to both parties for incidental
expences that may be incurred in the course of the
transaction.
(3) 60% to us the government officials (with which we
wish to commence an importation business
inconjunction
with you ).
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked
out for the smooth conclusion of the transaction
within ten to fourteen days of commencement after
receipt of the following information: Your company
name, address, company's details,telephone & fax
numbers.
These information will enable us make the applications
and lodge claims to the concerned ministries &
agencies in favour of your company and it is pertinent
to state here that this transaction is entirely based
on trust as the solar bank draft or certified cheque
drawable in any of the Central Bank of Nigeria
correspondent bankers around the world is going to be
made in your name.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using my
e-mail address,stating your tel/fax number for further
details.
Yours faithfully,
Engr.Patrick Zuma
