I am Ibrahim J. Tanko, the only son of late Chief Moshud Tanko from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact form the business directory. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your assistance to transfer our cash of Thirty Million United Stated Dollars (30,000,000.00) now in the custody of a Security and trust Company in the Netherlands to your private account pending our arrival to your country. SOURCES OF THE FUND My late father, chief Moshud Tanko, a native of Mende District in the northern province of Sierra-Leone, was the general manager of Sierra-Leone Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation ovver draft and minor sales. ' Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country,following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to the Netherlands with our personal effort and the boxes containing the money. My father deposited the boxes in a private security company in the Netherlands for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the indiscriminate looking of the public and government properties by the rebels forces, the Sierra-Leone mining co-op.was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father including other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels in November 1999 because of the relationship with the civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death, dashed our hope of survival. The untimly deaths caused my mother heart failure and other related complications of which she later died in the hospital Now, my 16 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country where we are a political asylum Without any relation. Our only hope now is on you and the boxes deposited in a Security Company. To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways. To assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-benficiary. To transfer this money in your name to your country To make good arranagement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country. And to make arrangement for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most importantly, the security company official do not know the exact content of the box because it was decleared as family valuables. The document issued after deposit of the consignment is in my custody. For your assistance, I have conceded 20% of the money to your efforts assistance, 10% for any expenses that will be incured during the transaction while the other 70% for me and my sister. I hope to hear from you soon. Thank you very much for your help. Best regards, Ibrahim J. Tanko