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Dear Friend,
My name is Barrister Didah H. Mahamadu ; Attorney representing the contract
awarding committee,
Sudanese National Petroleum Corporation {SUDAPET}. Before I proceed, I must
first apologise for this
unsolicited letter to you. I am aware this is certainly not a conventional
way of approach to
establish a relationship of trust, but you will realise the need for my
action.
Actually, I got your contact information from your country's public records
while searching for a
foreign partner that will assist us with a lucrative transaction that needs
an
urgent and immediate attention.
In 1996, contract was awarded to a firm/ company in Germany at worth of
$165 million (One hundred
and sixty-five million united state dollars) for maintenance and services
of our refinery in Khartoum, which
we over invoiced by 10% = ($16.5 million) as our commission (Sixteen
million five hundred thousand
united state dollars).
Now we want to transfer/ remit this over invoiced money (16.5 million) our
commission
to a foreign account. The original contractor from
Germany that executed this contract has already received its capital fund
in good faith
remaining our commission, which is floating on the Ministry's suspense
account.
This process is vital and urgent following the instruction we did received
earlier from the ministry of finance
stating that all contractor's funds be remitted to their account before
entering the last control and auditing
for the year 2008.
For this reason, the officers involved mandated me to bring any foreign
partner/friend
who will receive this fund abroad on our behalf.
So, we are contacting you to assist us in receiving this fund hence, we are
not allowed to operate
foreign account. We will give you 30% of the total commission
($16.5million) for your time and effort
Note: this transaction is 100% risk free, is legal money, and the whole
process is simple.
However, If this proposal does offend your moral values please pardon me
otherwise reply
Via my private email address: dmuhamadu@hotmail.com for more clarification.
And please, be kind to get back to me if you are not interested so that we
can further our search for
another partner.
Awaiting your immediate response
Kind regards
Mr. Didah H. Muhamadu
Attorney Sudapet.