November 14, 2003 Goodday Sir, I am Mohammed Abacha the son and heir apparent to the late head of state General Sani Abacha who died in August 1998. My family and I have been put through a lot of pressure, frustration and despair by the present civilian administration. I was detained and arraigned before a federal high court of Nigeria for an offence I did not commit. After being subjected to much physical and psychological torture in detention,I have lost confidence in anyone within the country. By the grace of God, I was released on the 25th of september 2002 but under house arrest in Kano. You must have heard over the media reports and internet on the recovery of various huge sums of money deposited by my late father in different security firms abroad. Some companies sold out and disclosed our money confidently lodged there,others resorted to outright blackmail. In fact the total sum discovered by the Government so far is to the tune of $700m (seven hundred million us dollars). They are not relenting to make my family poor for life. I got your contacts through my personal research and out of desperation,I needed to meet you through this medium. I repose great confidence in you hence my approach to you due to security network placed on my day to day affairs, I cannot visit any embassy so I decided to contact you and I hope you will not betray my confidence in you. I have deposited the sum of $20.3m US dollars with a security company abroad whose name is withheld for now untill we open communication. I shall be grateful if you provide an account and receive this fund for safe keeping. This arrangement is known to you, my Mother Hajia Mariam Abacha, myself and very little details to my lawyer. I am seriously considering to settle abroad! in a friendly environment like yours as soon as this fund gets into a safe account so I can start all over again if only you wish, but if it is impossible,just assist me in diverting this fund into a safe account. I am offering you 10% of this fund.5% will be used for any expenses for this transaction.I will require your Telephone and Fax numbers so that we can commence communication immediately. Should you not accept this offer, please do not let me out to the security as I am giving you this information in trust and confidence.Please respond. I will greatly appreciate if you accept this proposal in good faith. Please reply via my email address or fax no 234 1 759 2225. Please expedite action. Yours Truly, Mohammed Abacha. QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ Mr Richard Wilford spain barcelona Email: richwilford2002@netscape.net Tel:+34 665 176 211 14-11-2003 Dear friend, I am Mr. Richard Wilford, the only son of late Chief John Wilford from Sierra-Leone. I got your contact from the internet directory and need an assistance from you. My sources of your contact gave me encourage and confidence to write on you. I am writing you in absolute confidence primarily to seek for your assistance to transfer our cash of (Thirty Nine Million United Stated Dollars) (39,000,000.00) now in the custody of the Security and trust Company here in spain to your private account pending our arrival to your country. SOURCES OF THE FUND My late father, chief John Wilford, a native of Mende District in the northern province of Sierra-Leone, was the general manager of Sierra- Leone Mining Co-operation (S.L.M.C) Freetown. According to my father, this money was the income accrued from mining co-operation over draft and minor sales. Before the peace of the civil war between the rebel forces of Major Paul Korormah and the combined forces of ECOMOG peace keeping operation that almost destroyed my country, following the forceful removal from power of the civilian elected president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah by the rebels. My father had already made arrangement for his family, my mother, my little sister and myself to be evacuated to spain, with our persona effort and the box containing the money. My father deposited the box in a private security company here in spain for the safe custody until after the war when he will join us. During the war in my country, and following the! indiscriminate looking of the public and government properties by the rebels forces, the Sierra-Leone mining coop. was one of the targets looted and destroyed. My father including other top government functionaries were attacked and killed by the rebels because of the relationship with the civilian president Ahmed Tejan Kabbah. As a result of my father's death, our hope of survival. The untimly deaths caused mother heart failure and other releated complications of which she later died in hospital after we must have spent a lot of money on her. Now, my 17 years old sister and myself are alone in this strange country suffering without any care or help. Without any relation, we are now like refugees and orphans. Our only hope now is in you and the box deposited in a Security Company. To this effect, I humbly solicit your assistance in the following ways. To assist me claim this box from Security Company as co-benficiary. To transfer this money in your name to your country To make good arranagement for a joint business investment on our behalf in your country and you, the careteker. To secure a college for my little sister and myself in your country to further our education. And to make arrangement for our travel with you to your country after you have transferred this fund. Most important, the security company official do not know the exact content of the box because it was decleared as family valuables. The whole document issued after deposit is in my custody. For your assistance, I have concede 35% of the money to your efforts assistance. Best Regards Richard Wilford. QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQq DR. PAUL O OKOSUN, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES, # 24 KOFO ABAYOMI AVENUE, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS-NIGERIA. Dear Friend, REQUEST FOR MUTUALLY BENEFITTING ENDEAVOR I, on behalf of my colleagues from different Federal Government of Nigeria owned parastatals decided to solicit your assistance as regards transfer of US$41,500,000.00 (Fourty one Million,five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) into your bank account. These funds emanated from unclaimed contractual proceeds of foreign contracting firms who could not meet their financial obligations to their creditors.We, as holders of sensitive positions in our various parastatals, were mandated by the Federal Government to scrutinise all payments made to certain foreign contractors and we discovered that some of the contractors have not been paid their contractual entitlement which collectively left the sum of US$46,500,000.00 (Fourty six Million, five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) lying in a suspended Account. However, from our investigations, we discovered that the foreign beneficiary companies have since been liquidated, and to all intents and purposes no longer exist in Nigeria, thus providing us with this opportunity, provided that we have a capable partner, to execute a transaction of this nature. We agreed that the said amount would be transferred into an overseas Bank Account to be provided by a reliable foreign firm/associate. This is because as serving Government workers the Civil Service Code does not allow us to operate foreign Account. In our initial attempt to do this, we succeeded in transferring part of this amount US$5m (Five Million Dollars) into a United States Dollar Account in Beirut, Lebanon, but our foreign associate failed to honour our mutual agreement insisting instead that the total amount be transferred into the Account before we can share the money. As a result, we have lost confidence in the ability of our Lebanese partner to see this matter to its logical conclusion, and until the initial transaction is satisfactorily resolved, we have cancelled further transactions with him. In the light of the foregoing, it is clear that we require a partner that is not only capable of rendering assistance and co-operation in executing this matter, but will honour the terms of agreement when we reach the concluding stages of this transaction. We therefore offer the amount of 20% of the entire sum in return for services/assistance rendered in successfully carrying out this project, while 10% shall be set aside for Incidental expenses (internal and external) between both parties in the course of the transaction you will be mandated to remit the balance to other accounts in due course.. We trust that you appreciate the sensitive nature of this matter and the need for initial caution on our part, but when a relationship is confidently established and operations commence you will be provided with all relevant information. Modalities have been worked out at the highest level of the Ministry of Finance and the Federal Reserved Bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the funds within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated terms. our assurance is that your role is risk free and to accord this transaction the legality It deserves and for mutual security of the funds the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your name or the name of any company you may nominate as the bona- fide beneficiary. I remain at your disposal to entertain any questions/enquiries relating to this proposition and you may contact me as a matter of urgency via e- mail for further information on the procedures and requirements of this transaction. Once more I want you to understand that having put in over twenty five years in the civil service of my country, I am adverse to having my image and career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency it deserves. In your reply, remember to indicate a safe telephone number where I can always reach you for further clarification. Hope to hear from you soon. your's sincerely, DR. PAUL O OKOSUN QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQq