This is an email received today. Anyone else? What do you make of it? A bit dodgy or what!?
Mr. Oliver Opara, Diamond Bank Ltd. Apapa.Lagos, Nigeria. Website: http://www.diamondbank.com Dear friend, This letter may come to you as a surprise due to the fact that we have not yet met. The message could be strange but real if you pay some attention to it. I could have notified you about it at least for the sake of your integrity. Please accept my sincere apologies. In bringing this message of goodwill to you, I have to say that I have no intentions of causing you any pains. I managed to get your contact details through the Internet myself. Time is of the importance and I am desperately looking for a person to assist me in this confidential business. I am Mr. Oliver Opara,a Branch manager of Diamond Bank Ltd, and a close associate of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources. The Minister had mandated me to transfer the sum of US$88.5 millions recovered from an over-invoiced contracts involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation[NNPC] into several private account in Europe and United States. A total sum of US$70,000,000.00 has been transferred before the emergence of this present Civilian Administration, leaving the balance of US$18,500,000.00. I have made proper arrangement/documentation to transfer the balance which is retained in a coded account of the NNPC with my Bank. I am soliciting for your help to receive the fund in trust. I cannot complete this transaction smoothly without the participation of a foreign partner who would be presented as the foreign contractor and provide a foreign account where the funds could be lodged. Since it is a foreign contract payment, the funds must be remitted to a foreign account. The remittance of the funds requires little documentation that would be completed as soon as you provide me with a secured bank account where you may wish to receive the money. There is no risk involved on your part in this transaction since I have covered this transaction with adequate contract and external credit documents from the beginning. What i require from you through email: [email protected] are: {i} Acceptance letter of this offer {ii} Your confidential telephone and fax numbers You will retain 40% of the entire US$18,500,000.00 for your effort in this transaction, 50% for me the remaining 10% will be used for defrayal of incidental cost in the course of this transfer. Please reply urgently by e-mail as i expect that the transaction will not take more than ten working days. And please note that this transaction must be top secret. Best regard. Oliver Opara.Qwerty