NIGERIAN SCAM LETTER FROM

PETER MBATA

From: " Peter Mbata" <ptmbata@ecplaza.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2002 5:44 AM
Subject: PARTNERSHIP


ATTENTION: CHAIRMAN/CEO


Sir,
I am Mr. Peter Mbata, a native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am a Director of Project Implementation with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and foremost, I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium. Be
informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was at the Government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal
described Hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.

Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as a Director and with the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Fourteen Million, Two Hundred Thousand U. S. Dollars ($14,200,000.) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual
to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds. More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole transaction.

This amount $14.2m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract costhave been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the Tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by
Key tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum will be 30% of the $14.2 million, 60% for us and 10% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of specializationis not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction. I have
reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me.

Endeavor to contact me immediately (at  hpmta@dr.com  sending your Telephone and fax numbers to enable me give you more details on this transaction) whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want to assure you that my partners and myself are in a position to make the
payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong Assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and please remember to treat this matter as a very confidential matter, because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence in this
business.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours faithfully,

Peter Mbata

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