The NNPC is a favorite story basis

One of our German readers sent this in today. It is the typical "over invoiced" story which we have often seen here.

It is interesting to note that increasingly non-english freemail accounts are being used.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: stmichaels@atlas.cz [mailto:stmichaels@atlas.cz]
Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. Juli 2005 08:56
An: stmichaels@atlas.cz
Betreff: Re.for us both[Scanned]

Phone: (24 hours): 234 802 764 0445

please reply to/ a.stmichaels@atlas.cz

I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee of the
Petroluem and Natural Resources Ministry here in
Nigeria[NNPC], for security reasons, I may not wish to
disclose how I got your email address for now.

After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward
to you this business proposal, we want you to assist us
receive the sum of

Twenty eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills

(us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted from an
over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget
allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was
executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual
cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of
us28.6m as the over invoiced amount, which we have
deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that
the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign
accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money
in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax
as may be required by your government.

Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of
risk hence the business was carefully planned before it was
successfully executed and we the officials involved in the
deal have put many years in service to our ministry. We have
been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not
until the presidential announcement last week that all foreign
contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the
presidential tax force reconcile our debt ratio with the
outside world especially now that we are begging for dept
forgiveness from our foreign creditors.To most of us involved
in this deal its a life time blessing we cannot afford to
miss. Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate
with us, a payment application/information form will be sent
to you via email for completion.

Note that the following information: a) bankers name and
address, b) account number and account name and c) your
private phone number and email address will enable us
seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned government
quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.

As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated
bank account, my partner and I will come over to your country
to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of this
money in your country.

Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this
transaction. I shall furnish you with some details about
myself. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.

Best regards.

St.Michaels.A