[SPAM] Re: Urgent Partnership Request

[Ryan Hoegg <rh...@isisnetworks.net>]

Apologies, moderation misfire

DR BENSON MAKELELE wrote:

>NAME  :   DR BENSON MAKELELE
>Pretoria, South Africa.
>
> Sir,
>
> On behalf of my colleagues and I, I write this
> letter with great pleasure. Your information were
> given to me by a member of the South African Export
> Promotion Council (SAEPC) who was with the Black
> Economic Empowerment Commission (Government)
> delegation on a trip to the United States during a
> bilateral conference talk to encourage foreign
> investors. I have decided to seek a confidential
> co-operation with you in execution of a business
> transaction hereunder for the benefit of all
> parties.
>
> Within the Department of Mining Resources where I
> work as the Director of Project Implementation, with
> co-operation of two other top officials, we have in
> our possession, an overdue payment in US funds.
>
> The said funds represent certain percentage of the
> contract value executed on behalf of my Ministry by
> a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials
> over-invoiced to the amount of US$14,300,000.00
> (Fourteen  Million, Three Hundred Thousand United
> States Dollars). Though the actual contract cost has
> been paid to the original contractor, leaving the
> excess balance unclaimed.
>
> The Government of the Republic of South Africa
> believe that private investment in general, and
> foreign direct investment in particular, are the
> real engines for sustainable economic development,
> for which reason it has continued to encourage
> investment in the key growth-oriented sector of
> Mining with sincere determination to pay foreign
> contractors all debts owed to them, so as to
> continue to enjoy close relationship, and a mutually
> beneficial co-operation with foreign governments and
> non-governmental financial agencies. As a result we
> included our bills for approvals with the
> co-operation of some officials at the Department of
> Finance and the Reserve Bank of South Africa (RBSA).
> We are seeking your assistance to be the beneficiary
> of the unclaimed funds, since we are not allowed to
> operate a foreign account. The changing of
> beneficiary's information/details and other forms of
> documentation upon application for claim to reflect
> the contract money and its approvals will be secured 
> on behalf of your company or your good self.
> I have the authority of my colleagues involved to
> propose that, should you be willing to assist us in
> this transaction your share as compensation will be
> 30% while my colleagues and I shall receive 60%, and
> the balance of 10% shall be used to reimburse all
> expenditures, taxes and miscellaneous expenses so
> incurred.
>
> It does not matter whether or not your company does
> contract projects of the nature described here. The
> assumption is that your company won the major
> contract and subcontracted it to other companies.
> More often than not, big trading companies and firms
> of unrelated fields win major contracts, and
> subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.
>
> This business itself is 100% safe, provided you
> treat it with utmost confidentiality. Also your
> pecialization is not a hindrance to the successful
> execution of this mutual beneficiary transaction. I
> have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
> will not disappoint us.
>
> Kindly notify me by email for further details, upon
> your acceptance of this proposal.
>
> Regards,
>
>DR BENSON MAKELELE.
>