Posted on Tuesday 8 April 2008
subject line: Transfer Fraud Alert Unauthorized Transfer Procedures
from: Shamsudeen Usman
email received: 8-04-08
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Federal Government of Nigeria.
Office of the Hon. Minister of
Finance & Economic Development of
Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Attention:Beneficiary,
Transfer Fraud Alert Unauthorized Transfer Procedures.
My name is Dr Shamsudeen Usman. As you must be aware, I am the newly appointed Finance Minister of Nigeria. I recently took over office from my predecessor,Dr.Mrs Esther Usman Nenadi.
I am writing you with regards to your stalled funds transfer. For your interest, I would urge you to accord this correspondence your full indulgence and attention, as you may likely have been receiving other emails of similar contents from the numerous Nigerian 419 fraud syndicate and impostors. The authenticity and difference would be evident in a moment.
In the course of the end of the year winding-up activities of all foreign transfers, I was specially instructed by the Presidency to embarked on a personal review of all long pending and stalled International Transfer Files at the Finance Ministry and the Central Bank of Nigeria, including those at our Offshore Foreign Correspondent Banks, with a view of redeeming genuine cases, and consigning others as bad debt in the 2008 Federal Budget.
Mr. President has mandated me to ensure that all genuine claim and transfers are paid this first quarter of the year as part of his pledge to the United Nations, World Bank, and our major western allies.
Your transfer file came to my attention just this morning, and I was compelled to take special interest in your transfer because of its peculiar history of procedural inconsistencies and unauthorized payment approval documents that are contained in your file.
Obviously all the persons you assigned to process your transfer have proved to be fraudulent and incompetent. Simply put, these persons have only tried unsuccessfully to smuggle your transfer through a non-existent back door, while impersonating the offices of various government departments before you, and feeding you with forged transferred document.
Consequently, I have this morning ordered the heads of all the relevant Government Departments genuinely involved in the foreign transfer protocol, including the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, and the all our Foreign Correspondent Banks, to suspend all further action on your transfer pending conclusion of my personal investigation into the actual reasons why your transfer has failed to date. Official memos have been issued to the relevant
departments.
However, preliminary evidence shows clearly that these fraudulent persons you have assigned to help you process your transfer have been extorting monies from you through concocted excuses and lies, only for them to divert the monies colleted from you to their private pockets and return back to demand more monies from you endlessly.
Please you should not allow yourself to be deceived and extorted anymore. As the chief finance officer of Nigeria, I want to assure you that your transfer will now be processed through the simple, transparent and authoritative means where you will not be required to pay any unauthorized fees.
Please discontinue any form of contact with all those you have been dealing with before now, no matter the nature of your relationship with any of these crooks, including your local attorney. My intention is to quickly reactivate and sort out your transfer without any distraction. So you are forbidden to preempt anyone of this contact, otherwise I will be compelled to out rightly cancel your transfer along others a bad debt.
Reply immediately to acknowledge this advice, and I will instruct you further.
Regards,
Dr Shamsudeen Usman.
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