Stupid Punts!

I received this fine literary masterpiece today, this time there are no diamonds or even a rotting corpse.

This gentleman claims to be involved in the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas company, in fact he claims to be the chief accountant.

He and the Auditor General no less, definitely a sign of an honest enterprise, wish to use my bank account to place a "whopping" (his words) $20M in.

They, being top civil servants, cannot open a foriegn bank account; of course not!

Well that would resolve my issues with my underperfroming endowment policy! (see The Endowment Diary)

As usual it poses no risk to me at all. How reassuring!

NIGERIAN LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS
LAGOS CENTRAL OFFICE
LAGOS-----NIGERIA
ATTENTION:

RE: TRANSFER OF US$20.500,000 (TWENTY MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY) TO A
SAFE ACCOUNT

I wish to intimate you with this proposal in my
capapcity as Chief Accountant and in full agreement
with the Auditor-General of this company (Nigerian
Liquified Natural GAs). We scrutinised all records and
the accounts of awarded and executed contracts of this
company (NLNG) during the previous military regime,
since the inception of democracy in Nigeria and
carefully uncovered and mapped out a whopping sum of
USD 20.5m which we want to transfer into your account
as the beneficiary. It might interest you to know that
the Nigerian Liquified Natural Gas came into full
working capacity during the beginning of this current
civilian government at a working assets capital of USD
3billion and will definitely gulp more USD 2 billion
on the completion of the fifth part. You can
authentically apply for supply if it interests you to
be our client with full guarantee from me.

The money US$20.5m has been approved for payment by
this company, NLNG, the Federal Ministry of Finance
(endorsed by the Accountant General of the Federation)
and to be paid by the Apex BAnk of Nigeria under
contract number, NLNG/FGN/FMF/CBN/B2517/99.

As top civil servants, we are not authorised to
operate foreign bank accounts hence our decision to
use your account in full trust and confidence to
transfer this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted
you as our foreign partner and will regularise and
update the approvals to reflect you as the true
benefiaciary of the contract sum USD 20.5m (twenty
million, five hundred thousand US dollars only).

Moreover, it is pertinent to note that it is not risky
and does not require much engagements since we have
taken care of the deal in full capacity. We have
resolved to negotiate the percentage which you will be
offered for your assistance when we finalise on the
deal with you.

If you are interested in this deal, please contact me
through my email address above for more lively
information. Remember to give me your phone and fax
lines through which I can send you approved documents
for your perusal.

I am anxiously waiting for your response with hope
that you will understand the confidential nature of
this transaction.
Yours faithfully,

MR IKEM