| Editors' Newswire for 14 January, 2003
Re: Editors' Newswire for 14 January, 2003 (Ray Huff - 17:59, 17 Feb 2004) Is it a scam?
Re: Editors' Newswire for 14 January, 2003 (Patrick Goma - 01:32, 30 Nov 2003) MR MR PATRICK GOMA
Eko International Bank PLC
Plot 5 Ikeja Commercial Scheme
Ikeja, Lagos-Nigeria
Tel: +234-1-4932582, 4932567, 4932584
website: www.ekobank.com
Dear Friend,
This is a proposal in context but actually an appeal
soliciting for your unreserved assistance in
consummating an urgent transaction requiring maximum
confidence. Though this approach appears desperate, I
can assure you that whatever questions you would need
to ask or any other thing you will need to know
regarding this proposal will be adequately answered to
give you a clearer understanding of it, so as to
arrive at a successful conclusion.
My name is MR PATRICK GOMA, Head (Treasury &
Financial Institutions), Eko International Bank PLC,
Lagos-Nigeria. On December 6, 1999, a foreign
consultant/contractor with the Federal Ministry of
Works & Housing, Mr. David Sidney Jocelyn-Duffield,
made a numbered time (fixed) Deposit for twelve
calendar months, valued at US$17,000,000.00, (Seventeen
Million United States Dollars) in my branch. Upon
maturity, I sent a routine notification to his
forwarding address but got no reply. After a month, I
sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the Federal Ministry of Works &
Housing, that Mr. Jocelyn-Duffield died from an
automobile accident. On further investigation, I found
out that he died without making a WILL, and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I
therefore made further investigation and discovered
that Mr. Jocelyn-Duffield did not declare any next of
kin or relations in all his official documents,
including his Bank Deposit paperwork in our Bank.
This sum of US$17,000,000.00 is still sitting in my
Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the
principal sum at the end of each year. No one will
ever come forward to claim it. According to Nigerian
Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years, the funds
will be Unclaimable and revert to the ownership of the
Nigerian Government if nobody applies to claim the
fund. In order to avert this negative development, I
in conjunction with a colleague (the Chief Operating
Officer in the bank) now seek your permission to allow
my attorney do a CHANGE OF OWNERSHIP/REASSIGNMENT OF
CREDIT of stated funds from the "deceased" to your
name, so that the funds (US$17million) would be
released to you as the new owner (on behalf of me and
my colleague).
We are writing you because, as public servants, we
cannot operate a foreign account or have an account
that is more than N250,000:00. Consequently, I will
present you as the owner of the funds to the bank so
you can be able to claim them. This is simple. I will
like you to provide immediately;
1. Full names
2. Contact address
3. Telephone and fax numbers
Once I receive these information, I will prepare the
necessary documents which will put you in place as the
new owner of the funds. The money will then be
released to your custody by the bank, for us to share
in the ratio of 80% for us and 20% for you. There is
no risk at all as all the paperwork for this
transaction will be done by the solicitor and this
will guarantees the successful execution of this
transaction. If you are interested, please reply
immediately via my email address. Upon your response,
I shall then provide you with more details and my
confidential phone number for further explanation that
will help you understand the transaction.
No doubt this proposal will make you apprehensive,
Please we employ you to observe utmost confidentiality
and rest assured that this transaction would be most
Profitable for both of us because we shall require
your assistance to invest our share in real estates in
your country. This is why your urgent action and
response is of priority to enable us conclude this
transaction in a timely and professional manner.
Awaiting your swift response via this email box.
Thanks and regards,
MR PATRICK GOMA. |