>From the desk of: Dr. Charles Chukwuka Director Bill/Exchange Foreign Remittance The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd, Johannesburg.
Dear Sir/Madam. I am Dr. Charles Chukwuka, Director of Bills/Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of The Standard Bank of South Africa Ltd, Johannesburg. 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. Be informed that a member of the South Africa Banks Promotion Council (SBPC) who was at the Government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition, gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation 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. In my department where I work with the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession an over invoiced payment bills totaling Seventeen Million, Two Hundred Thousand United State Dollars ($17,200,000.) 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 secondly, now it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before July 2004. And we do not want the money to go into the government account as unclaimed bill. Hence your importance in the whole transaction. This amount of $17.2m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contractor 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. It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence my contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the Beneficiary to this fund, so that we can release the fund into your account for safety and subsequent disbursement. The mode of sharing, after a successful transfer of the money into your account would be: 60% to my colleagues and I; 30% will go to you, and 10% is set aside to off-set all the expenses we would incure at the course of this business. It will only take two working days to conclude this business because once you send the your full name and address with your direct phone and fax number, we shall credit your account through our reserve account in Europe or United States. Remember that my present situation will not allow me to search for another person, I absolutely HOLD YOU ON TRUST. Therefore we urge you to respond immediately to this my email address to enable me commence with the modalities of this transfer as we are well prepared to do this promising transaction with you and hope to continue with you in future. Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons. Best Personal Regards, Dr. Charles Chukwuka. Johannesburg, South Africa.
