From Mr.Alexander Kofi Mensah Mould
CEO Ghana National Petroleum Corporation
(GNPC)
I am Mr.Alexander Kofi Mensah Mould? the CEO Ghana National
Petroleum Corporation which awards contract in the Department of Petroleum Resources of Ghana. I head a seven man Tenders Board Committee in charge of contract award and Payment approvals. I
came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction, which involves
the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.
There
were series of contracts executed by a consortium of Multinationals in
the oil industry in favour of the (GNPC) among which were;
1) The
expansion of Pipeline network within Ghana for crude oil and downstream
products distribution and subsequent evacuation - US$2
Billion.
2) Contract for Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of Refinery in
the country.
3) The construction of Storage Tanks for
Petroleum Product (Depots)-US$94 Million.
The original value of
of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced in the sum of Twenty
Five million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars
$25,500,000.00) which has recently been approved and now ready to be
transferred. However the companies that actually executed the
aforementioned contract have been fully paid and the projects officially
commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer
the total amount into your account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct
Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed
in you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed amongst
ourselves to offer you 40% of the transferred sum, 10% shall be set
aside for any incidental expenses during the course of this transaction,
you will then be mandated to revert the balance to us in due
course.
You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to the
following terms and conditions; our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence, that you must accord this
transaction with utmost confidentiality and secrecy.
Modalities
have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry 0f Finance,
Central Bank of Ghana and the Presidential Task Force on Contract
Payment for the immediate remittance of the funds within 5 - 7 working
days subject to your satisfaction of the above terms.
Our
assurance is that your role shall be totally risk free. To accord this
transaction the legality it deserves, and for mutual security of funds,
the whole procedures shall be legally processed with your name or any
company you may nominate as the bonafide final beneficiary.
Once
more, I want you to understand that having put in over 20 years in the
Civil Service of my country, I am very much averse to having my image
and career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost
secrecy and urgency. Kindly expedite immediate action as we are well
behind schedule to enable us include this transfer in the second batch
of the 2014 fiscal year contract payments.
Best
Regards.
Mr.Alexander Kofi Mensah Mould
CEO Ghana National Petroleum
Corporation (GNPC)
Showing posts with label David Mamet. Show all posts
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27 July 2014
16 October 2013
the further adventures of The Spanish Prisoner / the further adventures of The Spanish Kidney / David Mamet joke & double feature
What Cyberspace has come to call Nigerian scam letters -- Nigeria seems to have evolved into the computer-age Earth center of digital scamsters -- is actually the modern avatar of a much older scam / ripoff whose hopeful fingers reach for the wallets of suckers via uninvited text.
The original surprise offer came in the form of a handwritten letter, and told a tragic story of a fabulously wealthy Spanish nobleman unjustly imprisoned in some dark and hopeless dungeon. The letter was written by his frantic beautiful young daughter, who was herself without friends or financial means.
But if the recipient of her letter was honest, and of good heart and intentions, and had a modest amount of money to invest, all that was needed to free The Spanish Prisoner was a little up-front cash with which to bribe the jailers, and then her Noble Father could be free, regain access to his great fortune, and would very generously reward any good stranger who heeded his daughter's plea and helped him achieve his freedom.
The first Spanish Prisoner letters seem to have appeared late in the 19th century. They must have worked, somebody must have hosed up some sucker bucks from strangers, because, in one lingo and pathetic story or another, scamsters have been grinding out these letters / e-mails steadily for more than a century.
The letters keep coming, and it's a well-documented and miserable fact that the suckers keep biting.
The USA playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, who has a particular fondness for stories involving scams and confidence games, made an ultra-outre movie called "The Spanish Prisoner." I can say no more. Just rent it and watch it. For a real creepy double feature, also rent Mamet's "House of Games." Then come back here and Leave A Comment.
* * *
the David Mamet joke
It's intermission outside a Chicago legit theater, and a patron smoking a cigarette is approached by a panhandler who hits the theater guy up for a buck.
The theater patron looks at the panhandler, and says
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
-- Shakespeare
The panhandler replies
"Fuck you."
-- Mamet
* * *
Anyway, I don't use my e-mail spam filter. I love to see what Strangers in Cyberspace have to offer me, I love their lurid, bizarre stories, their promises of fantastic rewards, unimaginable treasures, if I will just help out with a very modest cash investment.
I also love their astonishingly colorful and often failed attempts at writing English.
This one sticks out like a blazing neon sign because it's in near-perfect -- hell, okay, perfect -- English.
Can you squeeze any hints or clues or klews or aromas or accents out of it that might point to Tom's e-mail's point of origin, or Tom's background? Leave A Comment.
Of course if this sad plea for assistance has captured your heart and you want to help Tom's ailing Cousin, msg me and I'll send you the aol.com addie Thomas C. provided.
This could be a matter of Life and Death.
==================================
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas C. McCarthy
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:31 AM
Subject: very important,
Sorry to bother you with this. Am presently in Spain with my ill Cousin. She's suffering from a Kidney disease and must undergo surgery to save her life. I am deeply sorry for not writing or calling you before leaving, the news of her illness arrived to me as an emergency and that she needs family support to keep her going, I hope you understand my plight and pardon me.
The surgery is very cheap here in Spain, I am wondering if you can be of any assistance to me, I need the balance of 2,500 euro to make the necessary arrangement, I traveled with little money due to the short time I had to prepare for this trip and never expected things to be the way it is right now. I'll surely pay you back once I get back home, The surgery needs to be done as soon as possible because she is going through a lot of pain at the moment and the doctor have advised that she has to be operated on time to avoid complications. I will appreciate whatever amount you can come up with if not all. Please get back to me.
Thanks
Tom McCarthy
The original surprise offer came in the form of a handwritten letter, and told a tragic story of a fabulously wealthy Spanish nobleman unjustly imprisoned in some dark and hopeless dungeon. The letter was written by his frantic beautiful young daughter, who was herself without friends or financial means.
But if the recipient of her letter was honest, and of good heart and intentions, and had a modest amount of money to invest, all that was needed to free The Spanish Prisoner was a little up-front cash with which to bribe the jailers, and then her Noble Father could be free, regain access to his great fortune, and would very generously reward any good stranger who heeded his daughter's plea and helped him achieve his freedom.
The first Spanish Prisoner letters seem to have appeared late in the 19th century. They must have worked, somebody must have hosed up some sucker bucks from strangers, because, in one lingo and pathetic story or another, scamsters have been grinding out these letters / e-mails steadily for more than a century.
The letters keep coming, and it's a well-documented and miserable fact that the suckers keep biting.
The USA playwright and screenwriter David Mamet, who has a particular fondness for stories involving scams and confidence games, made an ultra-outre movie called "The Spanish Prisoner." I can say no more. Just rent it and watch it. For a real creepy double feature, also rent Mamet's "House of Games." Then come back here and Leave A Comment.
* * *
the David Mamet joke
It's intermission outside a Chicago legit theater, and a patron smoking a cigarette is approached by a panhandler who hits the theater guy up for a buck.
The theater patron looks at the panhandler, and says
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
-- Shakespeare
The panhandler replies
"Fuck you."
-- Mamet
* * *
Anyway, I don't use my e-mail spam filter. I love to see what Strangers in Cyberspace have to offer me, I love their lurid, bizarre stories, their promises of fantastic rewards, unimaginable treasures, if I will just help out with a very modest cash investment.
I also love their astonishingly colorful and often failed attempts at writing English.
This one sticks out like a blazing neon sign because it's in near-perfect -- hell, okay, perfect -- English.
Can you squeeze any hints or clues or klews or aromas or accents out of it that might point to Tom's e-mail's point of origin, or Tom's background? Leave A Comment.
Of course if this sad plea for assistance has captured your heart and you want to help Tom's ailing Cousin, msg me and I'll send you the aol.com addie Thomas C. provided.
This could be a matter of Life and Death.
==================================
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas C. McCarthy
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 9:31 AM
Subject: very important,
Sorry to bother you with this. Am presently in Spain with my ill Cousin. She's suffering from a Kidney disease and must undergo surgery to save her life. I am deeply sorry for not writing or calling you before leaving, the news of her illness arrived to me as an emergency and that she needs family support to keep her going, I hope you understand my plight and pardon me.
The surgery is very cheap here in Spain, I am wondering if you can be of any assistance to me, I need the balance of 2,500 euro to make the necessary arrangement, I traveled with little money due to the short time I had to prepare for this trip and never expected things to be the way it is right now. I'll surely pay you back once I get back home, The surgery needs to be done as soon as possible because she is going through a lot of pain at the moment and the doctor have advised that she has to be operated on time to avoid complications. I will appreciate whatever amount you can come up with if not all. Please get back to me.
Thanks
Tom McCarthy
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