The Nigerian Connection.

It appears that Mr. Robert Henley has been involved in some rather shady business dealings of late, but how did it all come to pass?

The e-mails I received from Nikolay seem to reveal at least some of the story, although we only have the mysterious Russian's word that the e-mails are genuine. They could, in fact, be yet another level of deception.

Since I believe that these documents deserve to read in their entirety, I decided to post them all here so as not to clog up my blog. I have copied them verbatim, so any grammatical or spelling errors are the fault of the original authors.

So, without further ado, here are the Nigerian e-mails -

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Urgent
Date: Friday June 30, 2004

DR.SAMUEL AMEDU
DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCE
SKOFO ABAYOMI STREET
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS.

Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR YOUR UNRESERVED ASSISTANCE.

This letter may come to you as a surprise but it was borne out of my sincere desire to share a mutual business relationship with you.

First, your strictest confidence in this transaction is highly solicited. This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret. I am a top government official with a statutory corporation and member of an adhoc committee set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to review contract awarded by past administration. In the course of identifying, scrutinising and recommending for the payment of all valid contract executed, we discovered a huge sum of money amounting to USD41.5M (Forty One Million five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) on grossly over invoiced contract already awarded and exccuted for the Directorate of petroleum resources.

We intend to transfer the balance of USD41.5M presently floating in our apex bank of Nigeria to our own benefit and advantage. However, we request for your unwavering assistance in this regard because as civil servants we are prohibited under the civil service code of conduct bureau from operating a foreign account or running a foreign company unless after retirement in this vain we want you to front for us as partner to enable us lodge the funds speedily into your account.

Bear in mind that no risk is attached to this project and all logistics are in place and modalities worked out for the smooth conclusion within a stipulated time. This is in accordance with the fact that you must never betray the trust already reposed on you. We have decided to compensate you with 30% of the total sum for your support, 60% for us while 10% for miscellaneous expenses (local and international).

Please, provide your confidential phone and fax number to enable me contact you for further discussion on this matter. Please advise in your return mail if any time is confidential enough to call you, and finally sorry if i intrude your privacy with this.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Best regards.

Dr. Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Re: Urgent
Date: Sunday August 01, 2004

Dear Samuel,

In regard to your proposition for a business partnership, I am pleased to advise you that Neurocam Technologies would certainly be interested.

Our center of operations is based in Melbourne Australia which is also where we base our financial transactions.

To discuss this matter further please contact me on my mobile phone *** **** ****. I look forward to doing business with you.

Yours sincerely,

Robert Henley

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Details/Way Forward
Date: Monday August 02, 2004

Dear Henley,

Thank you very much for your swift response to my proposal and to let you know that I have tried severally to call with the mobile number you provided in your email but I don’t seem to be getting through, so I have decided to educate you on the way forward as it relates to this business. I must assure you that this transaction is quite legal and 100% risk free. We do not intend to jeopardize your integrity and that of your family; all we need from you is a mutual relationship that will benefit both of us as well as our family. All normal legal procedures must be followed to have this fund transferred into your account within the stipulated time.

This transfer I must tell you will follow the legal process of local and international fund transfer. All the modalities for transferring this fund have already been put in place. So upon the receipt of your infor mation our lawyer will go ahead to the concerned ministry to effect the change of beneficiary to your name. After which it will be assume that you actually executed the contract and you become the legal beneficiary of this fund. Consequently, you will be the only one who can lay claim on the fund. This will enable the fund to be transferred into your account, and once it is transferred into your account, my colleagues and I will fly down to your country for the sharing purpose. All we require from you to commence this transaction are the following,

YOUR FULL NAME AND ADDRESS
YOUR COMPANY NAME AND ADDRESS
YOUR TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS

This is to enable our lawyer commence the processing of the change of the beneficiary of the fund to reflect your name and that of your company.

I will keep on trying to call you if I will be able to get through but please if you don’t hear from me on time kindly give me a call, you can call me on my official number during working hours here in Nigeria between 8am and 5pm, Monday to Friday on telephone number 234-1-776-9407 or at anytime on my cell number 234-803-4076360.

Please send me the above information that I requested from you. Expecting your mail and call on the way forward. Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Dr.Samuel Amedu

Official Tel.Number 234-1-776-9407
Cell Number 234-803-4076360

NOTE:THE ABOVE INFORMATIONS REQUESTED IS VERY IMPORTANT TO COMMENCE THIS TRANSACTION. ( Please respond with the information ASAP). ALSO IT IS IMPERATIVE YOU LET ME IF YOU ARE IN TOTAL CONTROL OF YOUR COMPANY

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Thank you!
Date: Tuesday August 03, 2004

Dear Henley,

How are you today?

Thank you very much for the information provided. With these information our lawyer will be going to the concerned ministries to effect the change of the beneficiary to reflect your name and that of your company. Once this is done, you will be the sole beneficiary of the said fund.

We will be registering a company for you here in Nigeria with your information because you must have a registered company here to be eligible to execute contract for the Federal government of Nigeria.

The company will be registered as NEUROCAM OIL $ GAS COMPANY OF NIGERIA. The date of the registeration of the company will be back dated to suit our purpose.

I will send you all legal documents covering this transaction when we have sucessfully registered a company here for you and when the neccessary changes has been made at the concerned ministries.

I will call you as soon as am able, better still call me on my direct number 234-803-4076360 for further explanation

Please reply ASAP.

Rgeards,

Dr.Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Progress
Date: Wednesday 04, 2004

Dear Henley,

How are you doing today?

Like I told you that our lawyer will be going to the ministries concerned to effect the change of the beneficiary of the fund to your name and that of your company [NEUROCAM OIL $ GAS COMPANY] thank God that he has been able to effect the changes. I will have all the necessary document sent to you soon for your perusal. Immediately you receive the documents from me, you must call me so that I can explain each of the document to you in details.

Most importantly, our lawyer has reliably informed me that your contract file will be forwarded to the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE before the end of work tomorrow along with an application for payment of your contract sum and that they will get in contact with you as soon as they receive your contract file.

Please it is very important we talk so that I can explain certain things to you before the FEDERAL MINISTRY OF FINANCE contact you so that you will know how to deal with them.

Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Dr. S Amedu.

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Re: Progress
Date: Thursday 05, 2004

Samuel

Sounds like things are progressing well.

You have my number, call me. Australian business hours are a good time to contact me. I am often out of the office so my mobile number is best.

Robert Henley

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: FMF
Date: Thursday 05, 2004

Good morning Samuel

You must have gotten your times incorrect as you called during our night time hours. I am only contactable during business hours (mon -friday 9am - 5pm) as I have a hectic schedule outside these hours and often have my phone turned off.

I have tried your numbers without success. Also I am unsure of the time difference in your country. I have been thinking that I would like to meet with you in person as it is not usually my custom to do business with people I haven't met.

Perhaps you could fly out to Australia for a couple of days or we could meet somewhere halfway. I am travelling overseas about once a week anyway, so could perhaps meet you in the US for a coffee? I am still very keen to proceed with this business arrangement, however I would feel much better about meeting you first.

Let me know what your availability is over the next week.

Kind Regards

Robert Henley

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Sender: Samuel Amadeu
Subject: The Fact
Date: Saturday August 07, 2004.

Hello Robert,

How are you doing my friend? It was really nice talking with you on the phone yesterday.

In furtherance to our telephone conversation of yesterday please be informed that I and my other colleagues have discussed extensively in regards to your coming to Nigeria to meet with us, the upshot of our discussion was that, it is not advisable you meet us in Nigeria for now for the sake of this transaction as will have already perfected all modalities for smooth consummation of this transaction.

Reasons why will cannot meet in Nigeria for now are as follows;

Firstly, on your arrival at the airport here in Nigeria you will be properly questioned about your mission to my country, and if for any reason you mention that you are here to meet with Government official you will definitely be asked for what purpose; is it personal or official? And if you tell them personal we will be under close watch.

Secondly, we cannot be seen with a foreigner or meeting with a foreigner for any reason except strictly on official matters and it will surely be on Government record that you are coming.

Lastly it will not be possible for us to have a face to face meeting for now, putting into consideration the sensitive and confidential nature of this transaction as we cannot afford to make any mistake at this stage of the transaction as you are very much aware already that your contract file has been forwarded to the Federal Ministry of Finance (PaymentAuthority) along with an application for the immediate transfer of your contract payment to you. We have invested a lot to get this transaction to this present stage and we will not want any thing that will put this project in jeopardy, I sincerely hope you quite agree with me on this my friend.

Allow me to reiterate that, for the sake of trust you do not need to bother your self at all, we should be the ones that should be much concerned about trust but we have already decided to repose that to you, so please I beg of you not to disappoint us. More so likeI did mentioned to you before that I will have myi nternational passport sent to you via email attachment for you to be rest assured that you are not dealing with a ghost but a human being like you and very trustworthy person, and I will as well expect you to send yours to me too for my own perusal.

Please I want you to understand with us and also for you to know that upon completion of this transaction we will definitely meet and celebrate the success of this project over a bottle of champagne.

Thank you and God bless.

Best regards,

Dr. Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: What is happening?
Date: Monday August 09, 2004

Dear Henley,

Did you get the mail that I sent you on saturday on why we cannot meet now?

I would also want to know if you have been contacted by the federal ministry of finance. It is important that I know if you have been contacted by the FMF so that I will be able to direct you on the proper step to take.

Please get back to me the moment you read this mail.Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Samuel

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: no subject
Date: Monday August 09, 2004

Hi Samuel,

Yes I received your email on Saturday and accept your reasons for us not meeting in person, although I was very much looking forward to a trip to Nigeria. I have not been contacted by the FMF as yet, but will let you know as soon as this happens.

Kind Regards

Robert

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Sender: Mr David Ego
Subject: Federal Ministry Of Finance (IRD)
Date: Tuesday August 10, 2004

Attn: Robert Henley,

This office, wish to inform you that your contract file have been forwarded to our office for final verification. We will get back to you with the outcome of our verification.

For more details, Contact Director International Remmittance Department Mr. David Ego.

Your faithfully,

Mr. David Ego.
Dir. - International Remmittance Department.
Tel: 234-1-790-3623 .Fax: 234-1-759-8680
Email: fmf_fed_nig@financier.com

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Sender: Nzanga Joseph Mobutu
Subject: Re: Kindly assist me!
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2004

NZAGA JOSEPH MOBUTU,

DEAR FRIEND,

I know this email will come to you as surprise because we have not met before. Actually,I contacted you because I never wanted anyone known to my family to be associated with the funds involved in this business. I am the first son of the late SEKO MOBUTU, the former President of the ZAIRE now democratic republic of congo .

I am presently on political asylum in Nigeria. I got your contact over the internet during my search for assistance in this mutual transaction. This became neccessary as i do not want anybody known to me to be associated with this money. I want you to note that this business
will benefit both of us and that it is 100% risk free. However, you must confirm your ability to handle this because it involves a large amount of money. The funds THIRTY SEVEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ($37million)is my share of my father's estate. I boxed and shipped the money to a security company abroad at the peak of the a political uprising that rocked my country few years ago.

Now the crisis has ended, I need a trustworthy person like you to proceed to the place of the security company in order to clear the fund and afterwards, I will come to your country for us to start a joint business venture as I do not have the intention of bringing the funds back to africa for a very long time. Note that I will send to you the relevant documents that will enable you take possession of the fund for onward investment for our mutual benefit.

All I need from you is as follows:

1. Your confirmation of your ability to handle this.
2. Your word that you will keep this business as confidential as possible at all times until we conclude this business.
3. Your telephone and fax numbers for communication.
4. Your full permanent address.

As soon as I get the above information from you, I will disclose to you the name and the country of the security company. I will also forward to you the contact of the diplomat that i have hired to assist us in this business. I will also forward your name and particulars to the security company to enable them contact you accordingly. As we make progress, I will also send to you a LETTER OF AUTHORITY and AGREEMENT LETTER to enable you clear the fund on my behalf.

Note that this is a very safe transaction as this funds is my share of my father's estate.

I am waiting for your response to enable us proceed.

Regards,
Your Brother,
NZAGA JOSEPH MOBUTU.

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Any news?
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2004

Dear Henley,

Top of the day to you.

How was you trip, I hope you arrived safely in theUnited State of America?

Have you been contacted by theFMF yet? Please know that at the moment I can only get information from you regarding this transaction as I am not in a position to get information from the FMF. I have done my fair share by securing the relevant document and incoporating a company here for you.

Please let me know the moment that you hear from theFMF. Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Dr.Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Re: Any news?
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2004

Samuel

I just received the following email and I am very concerned. How do you explain this? Is it a mere coincidence or are you guys putting me on? I trusted you and I talked to the Finance Department and was prepared to go through with this transaction. After getting this email I dont know if I can trust you at all anymore. Is this a scam?

Why would I get another email so similar to your first one? I know your country is corrupt and financially destitute but this is just too much of a coincidence. It now makes me realise why you didn't want to meet me here or in Nigeria and why I heard all those mobile phones in the background. I am very dissapointed Samuel or whatever your name is, I truly trusted you and you let me down. The only way you can regain my trust now is to prove you are genuine and meet me in Australia. If you fail to do this I will take it that this is a scam and that you are lying to me.

Henley

**** Attached is the Nazaga Joseph Mobutu e-mail from above ****

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Sender: Sameul Amedu
Subject: Re: The facts
Date: Wednesday August 11, 2004

Hello Henley,

I did receive your e-mail. I sense and indeed see a hesitation and suspicion on your part which I had not identified with you previously before contacting you. The whole of the past few hours, my blood pressure has been on the rise because of the anxiety of the thought that we were going to pull this laudable deal through after all. We, worrying about leaving matters in your hands, while you on your side wondering what we are up to. Or isn't this true? Well it seems from your recent e-mail, you think you know it all. However, please note that we are the ones here and we are an integral part of the system. You know your system while we know our system. I have also heard the saying "if it sounds too good to be true then it is not true!!!"Conversely same way, you do not get the taste of tea unless you soak it in hot water. We are aware of various scam publications in the Internet and had actually hoped that we could get this entire transaction properly and successfully concluded before it gets to your knowledge. This was more apparent from the fact that you are a man who works on, around and with information at least by the nature of your profession. However, we tried our possible best to keep calm with the hope that all this will not be tainted by such misfortune. However, this was definitely going to be no mean feat considering the fact that our project was so sensitive that it might not be able to withstand unusual scrutiny, so there was no way to confirm or counter-check any untoward details. This was further compounded by the activities of the scam racketeers in our society. I will not waste my time tutoring you on their activities, because you already have so much knowledge and details of this.

How much of this do you know? Perhaps, I should educate you further on this matter. Yes! It is true that it (scam) has eaten very (too) deep into our society especially amongst the younger generation Nigerians as contained in the Internet report. We (the elders) on our part have not been able to do much at stopping them because we lack the moral justification to carry out an all out war against this stain on our country's reputation. It had eaten so deep that at this period it is not very easy to do business in and with Nigerians. When in the past, other civil servants siphon money, the outside world felt Nigeria is such a wealthy country because of the expensive life-style of our visiting officials. We fly out on trade missions while, all we are going to do was to stash monies nicked away from our treasury, which at that time was relatively full. This came to a head in the last seventeen years of military rule. Under Babangida and Abacha, it became flagrant. All sorts of deals were concocted to skim money off the treasury. There were only so many such deals, but this could not be controlled because everybody benefited from it. In a nut shell, I want you to realize that such scams will not be possible if there were no real life activities that they are predicated upon. As you should know, there is nosmoke without fire. Indeed, the scam procedures outlined in the Internet may share some similaritieswith our proposed transaction but you will also agreewith me that no two identical twins exhibit exactly the same characters. Truly, the Internet procedures may share some similarities with our laudable transaction but the objectives are definitely not the same. Inspite of all these facts, I still want to let you know that I appreciate your reservation towards my proposed transaction as it superficially appears too good to be true indeed. However, life's best opportunities always appear too good to be true but the ability to recognize such opportunities is what makes the difference between great men and ordinary people. Money transfer of this nature is quite a common practice in my country where corruption thrives so much. All one needs to pull a transaction like this through in my country is to attain a strategichigh level official position in the Government which we have the advantage to be occupying presently. An article on this sort of transaction was done in THISWEEK International News magazine of March 13 2000, volume CXXXV No. II. Refer to it for further insight into the possibility of this sort of transactions. You can call THIS WEEK for a copy of the aforementione dedition. If anyone tells you this is not true, then they are speaking an UNTRUTH. Also, please do not have the erroneous impression that the monies are going to come to you that easily. You will have to earn it as nothing good comes that easily. As they say, there is no freelunch in America. Basically, we are going to use you as a front to get these monies transferred out of this country. However, we shall equally require your assistance in advising us on good investment opportunities in your country as we intend to invest substantial part of our share of the monies in your country.

We are poor civil servants (Government workers) who are presented with a life time opportunity to make bigf ortunes for ourselves by virtue of our official position.

More so, we do not know for sure the kind of relationship you share with your friends but you may do well to limit their involvement at this teething stage of this transaction until we advise you otherwise. Remember, we hold very sensitive positionsin our government and we would not want to jeopardizeour career since we do not know whom you have beentalking to. And please it is imperative you disregard that email sent to you about SEKO MOBOTU by an unscrupulous individual who claims to be Mobutu’s son.

We look forward to doing this good business with you. Please let us know your stance as per our offer so that we can know our faith and forge ahead. Also you did mention that you talked with the Finance Department, what did they say?

Awaiting your urgent response.

Best regards,

Dr. Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Re: The Facts
Date: Thursday August 12, 2004

Dear Robert,

How are you today? I received your mail and I want to thank you for your understanding. Once again, I want to assure you that this transaction of ours is 100% risk free and will not in anyway jeopardize your integrity or that of your company as we have been into this transaction since 1999 trying to perfect all modalities to have a smooth conclusion of this transaction. It is because we have fully perfected the transaction without any risk involved that is why we contacted you to front as the beneficiary of the said contract entitlement.

Mind you if anything risky is going to happen we would not want to partake in this transaction as this will also affect us, our work and family. Therefore, be rest assured that there is no risk involve provided you abide by my instructions. I want to reiterate here that whenever you here from the FMF or any official, you must first let me know before responding to them.

Regarding the account issue that you indicated in your mail, I want to let you know that even if you are going to use your company account you can be rest assured that nothing damaging will happen to your account or company. However, like you suggested, you can go ahead and open a new account so that the fund can be transferred into it.

My brother, I so much appreciate you for letting me know your feeling and I beg of you that whenever you have any misgivens, you should endeavor to call on me and I will always tell you the truth because I want both of us to really understand ourselves and be open to ourselves. Fine, I quite agree with you that there is fraud all over the world including your country and mine with the must corrupt country in the world being the USA, yet people still transact business with them and succeed provided you are sure of the kind of people you deal with and the kind of transaction that you go into. In this regard I want to let you know that this transaction is not in anyway related to fraud and you should know that our watch word in this transaction is confidentiality, so I sincerely beg of you to keep this transaction to your self for you not to get wrong advise from people. Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Samuel Amedu

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Good Day
Date: Friday August 13, 2004

Dear Robert,

How are you today?

Are you still in the USA? If so,I hope you are enjoying your stay. Please I would like to know if you have had any further correspondence from the FMF. I will appreciate it if you can forward me a copy of the previous mail that you received from the FMF for my perusal.Thanks and God bless.

Regards,

Samuel Amedu.

NB:Please call me as I have been trying to call you without success

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Important and Urgent
Date: Sunday August 15, 2004

Hello Robert,

I must let you know that I do not really appreciate when you use the statement “In order to proceed with this transaction” Please be reminded that we are in the final stage of this transaction, as such I will advise you to stop having negative thoughts about this transaction. You never mentioned to me you had a business partner, now you want to involved him in our project, well I have no objection about that but you have to guarantee me that he is 100% trustworthy. Also it is important I know this now, will Mr. Hely be sharing from your own share of this transaction?

As I rightly stated in my last email to you in regards opening of a new bank account, you can go ahead with it but you have to be quick about it because our Lawyer did informed me that the payment of yourc ontract fund (our money) will be effected on or before the end of this week. So I say again that you should be quick in the account opening.

However, note that I was mandated by my other colleagues to correspond directly with you, and for this singular fact I will only send to you my international passport before the close of business tomorrow being Monday to enable you verify my identity but you have to be very careful in this regards as I am still in active government service, as I will not want anything that will jeopardize my personality, my reputation in the society, as well as this transactionin which I and my colleagues has invested a lot into. Honestly my dear friend Robert I’m kind of disappointed that you still have an element of doubt about my person and this transaction. I must say this is very unfair of you, do you know I now regard you as my own blood brother, even up to the extent that whenever I relay your correspondence to my colleagues I normally address you as brother Robert to my colleagues. What I’m saying in essence is that the amount of trust I repose in you, you do not reciprocate it back to me, and this makes me very unhappy.

I guess I will now leave you as it is about some few minutes to 6pm my time so that I will not be late for prayer meeting in my Church. Thank you and God bless you my brother.

Best regards,

Dr. Samuel Amedu.

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Sender: Mr. David Ego
Subject: Payment Instruction
Date: Tuesday August 17, 2004

TO: NEUROCAM OIL AND GAS COMPANY
ATTN: ATTN: MR. ROBERT HENLEY

Dear Sir,

RE: PAYMENT INSTRUCTION OF FORTY ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS (US$41,500,000.00) VIDE CONTRACT NUMBER: DPR/PED/KPW-4800-99.

This office wishes to inform you on the outcome of our verification exercise at the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Our finding revealed thus:

That the Department of Petroleum Resources hereinafter called “DPR " is indebted to your company to the tune of Forty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only (US$41,500,000.00 ), and the said DPR has given approval for payment.

You are hereby advice that the Federal Ministry of Finance has given final approval for payment of your contract sum of Forty One Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only (US$41,500,000.00). Your payment file has been transmitted to our offshore payment centre, Euro Finance Trust in Amsterdam where we pay foreign contractors presently. Hence you will be required to set up an offshore account in your company’s name with same finance institution, trans-national fund transfer will be unnecessary and this will save you a lot in taxes that is double coincidence of taxation. As only intra - banking transfer will be effected. In effect the fund will be transferred directly into your new account by the off-shore fund manager of EFT.

Therefore, you are instructed to contact Mr. Ivan Tulla of Euro Finance Trust. Enclosed are the bank details.

BANK: EURO FINANCE TRUST
TELEPHONE NUMBER: +31.645.258.423
EMAIL: info@eurofinancetrust.com
WEBSITE: http://www.remittancetrust.com/
CONTACT PERSON: MR. IVAN TULLA

On behalf of the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Republic of Nigeria, I offer my felicitations on the payment of your contract sum.

Thank you.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. David Ego.
Dir. - International Remmittance Department.
Tel: 234-1-790-3623 Fax: 234-1-759-8680
Email: fmf_fed_nig@financier.com

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: New account
Date: Tuesday August 17, 2004

ATTN: Mr Ivan Tulla

I have been instructed by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Finance to set up an offshore bank account with your financial institution so they can transfer some funds. Do you know anything about this? My name is Robert Henley, my company is Neurocam and I have been dealing with Dr David Ego from the FMF.

What do I have to do in order to set up the account?

Regards

Robert Henley

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Re: Urgent
Date: Wednesday August 18, 2004

Morning Sammy

I got an email from the Euro Finance Trust Bank saying that the funds had come through and were in a holding account until I opened an account with them.

I went and registered and opened an account so the funds should be transferred within 24 hours!

What do we do then? How do I withdraw the money and get you your share?

Robby

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Re: Urgent
Date: Wednesday August 18, 2004

Hello Brother Robert,

Furtherance to our telephone conversation of this morning my time, I’m so happy that our funds are ready to be transferred. Please endeavor to keep me updated with the development.

Regards,

Dr. Samuel.

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: Thank God.
Date: Thursday August 19, 2004

Hello Brother Robby,

Thank God that all is going well, in fact I must let you know that I'm the most happiest man on earth right now.

As soon as you are in receipt of the money in your account you will have to first of all withdraw some money and send it to us to enable me pay back the loan I took from my bank here in Nigeria and also pay back the people my colleagues borrowed money from to facilitate this transaction to this present stage. Having done this I and one of my colleagues will now arrange to meet with you in Australia for the disbursement of this money and also we will be needing your professional advise on very profitable area of investment with our own share of the money. My brother I want your advise on this, I'm planning on resigning from my Job or what to you think?

Please let me know your opinion on this.

Thank you and God bless us all.

Regards,

Dr. Samuel.

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Good News
Date: Friday August 20, 2004

Sammy

The money arrived in my Mutual Trust account and I have transferred it to my own bank account. We are now rich! Yes I definitely think you should quit your job!

Now that I have all this money how do I go about getting you your share? When can you meet me in Australia to celebrate?

I hope you think its ok but I brought myself a new car today to celebrate. I got a black Audi A4, it really is an amazing car! Perhaps I can pick you up from the airport in it?

Robby

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: We Are Overjoyed!
Date: Friday August 21, 2004

Hello Brother Robby,

I’m overjoyed to hear that you are in receipt of our money in your account, in fact my brother I feel like break dancing on my computer. I have immediately relayed this marvelous news to my colleagues and they are more than overjoyed than I’m. Yes you are right my brother; we are now very rich.

Like I stated in my email to you that you will have to first of all send us some money to enable pay back the money we borrowed from friends and also for me to payback the loan I took from my bank. I will let you know by tomorrow how much you will be sending to us and how you are supposed to send the money after I have discussed with my other colleagues by tomorrow. Regards to our meeting Australia for the disbursementof this money along side with one of my colleagues, will be relayed to you before the week runs out, as we have to give some time at least two weeks to avoid any suspicious. I do hope you understand, but never mind as we are with you in spirit.

Amazing car indeed, my father-in-law bought one last year December Audi A4 3.0 Avant, I have drove on it like twice, it’s an exotic car, a perfect driving machine that cannot be compromised money wise, a German machine as my Father-in-law will call it. I will love to get one for myself also.

Please do call me tomorrow (Monday) on my cell phone: 234-803-407-6360 between the hours of 10am – 3pm my time. I will be expecting your phone call.

Regards,

Dr. Samuel

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Sender: EFT info
Subject: Account activation.
Date: Friday August 20, 2004

Attn:Mr.Robert Henley,

Dear Sir,

I write to acknowledge your account number 18437859, and sincerely apologise for the delay in response.

I will like to remind you that we will not be able to credit your funds presently in a suspence account into $0.00 balance account as it may raise serious questions.

However it is imperative therefore that you send to our Cheif Cash Room Officer the minimum offshore account opening balance of E2,500.00 (Two Thousand Five Hundred Euros) by the name of Mr. Alfred Ojo in Amsterdam since you do not already have an active account with us.

Please do make available your Identification today, and do not hesitate to contact me if in need of further clarification, while we thank you very most sincerly for your patronage.

Regards,

Ivan Tulla
V.P. International Banking

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: You did not call us. Why?
Date: Saturday August 21, 2004

Hello Brother Robert,

I must let you know that my colleagues are not happy with you. I sent you an email and also called and left a message on your phone yesterday asking you to make sure you call me that I and my colleagues will be holding a meeting today in respect to the success of our business, we waited for your call to no avail. I called you this morning to tell you the exact time for you to call but I could not speak with you instead I left a message on your phone.

Also we have tried severally to call you since afternoon my time but your number keeps saying the phone cannot be reach, why? Or are you planning on running off with our money?

Please my brother let me know why you did not call us? and also why is it that I cannot get through to your phone any more? I will await your immediate response.

Regards,

Dr. Samuel

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: WHAT IT THE MEANING OF THIS?
Date: Sunday August 22, 2004

WHAT IS GOING ON? WHY ARE YOU NOT RESPONDING TO MY EMAILS? IS THIS HOW YOU WANT TO PAY US BACK?

LET ME TELL YOU, IF YOU FEEL YOU CAN RUN AWAY WITH THIS MONEY, YOU BETTER HAVE A SECOND THOUGHT BECAUSE IF YOU DO I SWEAR BY MY GRAND MOTHER'S GRAVE I WILL USE AFRICA VOODOO ON YOU.

LIKE I SAID YOU BETTER HAVE A SECOND THOUGHT ABOUT THIS OR ELSE YOU WILL HAVE YOURSELF TO BLAME.

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: Re: WHAT IT THE MEANING OF THIS?
Date: Sunday August 22, 2004

Nice try Sammy or whatever your real name is.

From one con artist to another we both know there never was any money. I have been involved in similar scams myself for years and know the whole deal inside out. I have pulled it off several times and have made a lot of money over the years but the problem is that the scam is has been around far too long and people are very suspicious. You have to be incredibly thorough to pull it off and just for the record you made several key mistakes. For your future reference I will list them for you.

1. Never ever let any of you colleagues or anyone from your country send a starting email once contact has been made and the process started. This will destroy any credibility you may have had. Having that other email turn up at my address was just plain sloppy and made you look ridiculous. Why did it happen? Is there no communication between you people?

2. The bogus Federal Ministry of Finance email logo and address were just plain shonky! Having an @financier.com address is a dead giveaway. The animated logo looks nothing like the real one on the Government website. Also all government staff in all countries alway use .gpv.ngor whatever the country code is.

3. The redirection to the fake Providence bank website was a little shaky. I actually had both websites come up at the same time and the REAL one had a pop-up warning saying that people have been impersonating bankstaff........ Very obvious.

4. The sign-up process for the fake bank was a joke. I was able to put in entirely bogus details and I was still given a supposed account, no questions asked.

5. An email from the fake bank to me actually had the wrong name atthe top. It was addressed to a Mr David Pancake, obviously your people just got it horribly wrong.....

6. Your reluctance to meet me in Nigeria. You should have called my bluff. Even if I was going to be in Nigeria it would have been easy to meet me at the airport and gain my confidence even further.

7. Your over-emphasis on confidence, trust and familiarity. It was quite frankly over the top. Especially the bit about going to church......... That really isn't going to make anyone trust you any more.

8. The fake banks call for 2.500 euros to open an account. Not smooth at all. It would have been far better to lead me to believe that I had 45 million in the account and then obtained my real bank details when I went to transfer the money. You really could have cleaned up my accounts then.

Anyway I can tell that you must be new to this game and that you still have a long way to go in order to be an accomplished con-artist like myself. I personally think the time of the money-laundering scam is well and truly over and there are far easier and more lucrative scams out there. I could tell you a few myself but that would be giving the game away.

I wish you all the best and hope you have better luck next time.

It has been a laugh though!

Regards,

Howard Grant

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Sender: Samuel Amedu
Subject: YOU ARE A JOKER
Date: Monday August 23, 2004

Robert,

Do you know that you are just being funny? I do not understand any of the things that you have written in your mail.You are just trying to con us but you can be rest assured that I am an African and we rely so much on our African voodoo to settle scores. No one, I repeat no one can steal from me and live to enjoy thereward. Why did you think that I did no bother to find out about you or better still meet with you as you suggested to know you better? Perhaps you must have thought that I must be naive to have trust you so much to front for us to enable us lodge the money into your account. For all I know you might just disappear without any trace hence I do not know you.

I did not bother knowing you because I have so much faith in Africa voodoo to settle scores with people like you who believe that they can just con people out of a business done with trust. I want you to consider your self a walking corpes.

I would have believed that you perhaps thought that this was a fraud and was looking for a way of getting out but then I received another mail which I will forward to you hereafter. You should not have done that, it shows you as an amateur. It is ratherunfortunate that you decided to end your life mysteriously.

You got greedy after telling me the money was already in your account and that you bought a lovely car, how can you now come back to call me a scam? want to pull a fast one I guess? You may have succeeded in pulling a fast one but at the expence of your life.

Enjoy the money while you still have life.

Samuel

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Sender: Adrian Cale (adrian.cale@gmail.com)
Subject: Mr. Robert Henley
Date: Saturday August 21, 2004

Dear Dr Amedu

My name is Adrian Cale and I am a private investigator working in Australia.

I regret to inform you that Mr Robert Henley is a suspected criminal in our country and has been in court for various charges such as fraud, embezzlement and assault.

I am aware that you have been involved in various business transactions with Mr Henley (real name Howard Grant) which involve offshore financial investment. I am not sure of how far these transactions have progressed and whether or not you have given Mr Grant any money, but I urge you not to trust him and to report him to your authorities.

Once again I am sorry for any inconvienience this may have caused you, however you can rest assured that Grant's days are numbered and that he will soon be behind bars.

If you have any queries about this issue, or if you have any information which may help with the locating of Mr Howard Grant, then please do not hesitate to call me during office hours on ** * *******

Yours sincerely,

Adrian Cale

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Sender: Robert Henley
Subject: no subject
Date: Monday August 23, 2004

Sammy you really are a drama queen!

How far are you prepared to continue with your rediculous charade? There is NO money! There never WAS any money! I DONT have an Audi A4. I DONT have an account with your dodgy fake bank. They asked me to give them 2500 Euros to open an account which I didn't do because A. I dont have 2500 euros and B. even if I did I wouldn't give it over to a bogus Nigerian Fraud Scam. So you see Sammy, even if supposing that you are fror real (which is highly unlikely) then your money would still be in a holding account with the Providence bank. It wouldn't be hard for you to get it.

As for all your threats, is this just another part of you scam? To threaten people into giving you money? You are a nasty piece of work Sam and if anyone deserves a Voodoo curse it is you. I should report you to the police and to your authorities and have you locked up. I gave you the chance to accept my recognition of your scam with good grace and I was hoping we could all have a laugh about it, but no, you want things to get ugly. In all seriousness Samuel if you continue to threaten me I will report you to the authorities. I have all the evidence I need including recordings of all your phonecalls.

Please wake up to yourself and be honest. If you admit to me that this was all a fraud scheme I will not persue this any further. If you are for real then you know where your money is, in the Providence Bank.

Regards

Robert

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Sender: Sameul Amedu
Subject: I HAVE HEARD YOU!
Date: Monday August 23, 2004

Robert,

You really are a drama queen! How far are you prepared to continue with your ridiculous charade? These words of yours aptly fits you.

You can go ahead and report me to anyone you like even if I have to go to prison I do not care. My life ended the day you sent me your previous mail denying me of the fund that I so worked had for and invested in. I will surely make sure that your double crossing life comes to an end soon.

You would have succeeded in fooling me if Adrian Cale hadn`t writen me claiming that Mr Robert Henley is a suspected criminal in your country and has been in court for various charges such as fraud, embezzlement and assault and that your real name was Howard Grant. You subsequently wrote me claiming to be Howard Grant only for you to Write again as Robert.

There is no way I can find out if the money is with the dodgy fake bank as you put it, My contact at the FMF tells me that the fund has been deposited with the Providence bank that is all I am able to find out.

I shall not be writing you any mail after this but you can be rest assured that we will get even.

Samuel

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