Complaint Review: GREENFIELDS AGRO-ALLIED COMPANY - Lagos Nigeria

Below is a copy of one of several emails basically trying to solicit my checking account number.

They are probably perpetuated by the same person.

I have been getting one of these emails nearly everyother day.

I reply by telling them I'm not interested and that I'm on to their scam but I keep getting more of them.

Is there anything I else can do?

-----Original Message-----

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 12:22 PM

To: [email protected]

Subject: Invitation To Treat

GREENFIELDS AGRO-ALLIED COMPANY.

10 BROAD STREET,

LAGOS-NIGERIA.

Your Kind Attn.,

BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF USD13.2 M (THIRTEEN MILLION, TWO HUNDRED THOUSANDUNITED STATES DOLLARS) & BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.

First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret as you were introducedto us in confidence through the Nigerian

Chamber of Commerce, foreign trade division.and if the contents of this mail does meet with your approval, I humbly crave your indulgence. I am recently retired as the director of finance of the Federal Ministry Of Power & Steel (FMP&S).

During my tenure, I was also in charge of the tenders board. The job of the tendersboard was to access bids made to the FMP&S by foreign and local contractors fo rexecution of contracts recommend to the government foraward. In the course of ourwork at the tenders board, we recieved a bid of (USD46.8M) from Arab Contractors Company of Egypt for the refurbishing of the six therminal flow stations and the supply

of 27KVA transformers for the south-western part of the country.

The bid was unsually low for the contract in question considering the other bidswe had gone through. The tenders board then invited them for an appraisal of theirbid. After the appraisal, we the five members of the tenders board agreed to recommend them for the award of the contract only if they increase thier bid to USD60M.

The balance USD13.2M was to be paid to us (the members of the tenders board)after the execution of the contract for us. Not trusting the contractors to live up to theirown part of the bargain, we established the above mentioned company and had them su-contract the USD13.2M to the company as a sub-contract. The deed of sub-contractwas perfected by a notary public and copies circulated to the FMP&S and the central bank of Nigeria (CBN).

Arab contractors have executed the whole contract and have been paid off, leaving the balance USD13.2M.

Considering the amount of the fund involved we cannot ask the CBN to pay directly into our local bank account as the bank regulatorybodies will want to know the directors of the company.

Though I am retired, my other four partners are still ingovernment employ. I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my partners to source for a businesspartner to whom we could transfer

the sum of USD13.2M by drawing up a letter of domiciliation instructing the concerned government parastatals i.e the FMP&S and CBN to payinto the partner's account the contractual entitlement of USD13.2M.

You will agree with me that a letter of domiciliation is an accepted form of doing business world wide.Should this transaction interest you, you are to contact me on my personal e-mail address, so that I can brief you fully, and discuss your renumerationfor this undertaking.

All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen days of commencement.

Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using my personal E-mail address.

Yours Faithfuly,

Kola Owolabi.

Doug

Lafayette, Louisiana