I am the Director of project implementation with the South Africa Department of Mining & Energy Resources. First and foremost, I apologize using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council (SEPC) who was a member of the South African Government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the transaction described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as confidential, because of the nature of this transaction. Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as a director of project implementation and with the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills amounting to Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$18,500,000.00) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a reliable foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds.
More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole transaction.
This amount (US$18.5m) represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to remit by Telegraphic Transfer (T. T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in this transaction by way of providing the required account in receiving these funds, your share of the entire sum will be 30% while 60% amounting for me and my colleagues and 10% will be used to settle taxation and other miscellaneous expenses in the course of transferring the funds to your account.
The Transaction itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint me. Endeavour to contact me immediately, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me contact another Foreign partner with similar recommendation to carry out this transaction.
I want to assure you that myself and my partners are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and Please remember to treat this matter as very confidential matter; because we will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence in this business. Please reply urgently via my secured email address and furnish me with your CONTACT ADDRESS,TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS for further details.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. I am available to entertain any questions concerning the clarity of this transaction.
Does this whole thing feel like a set up? When the hell did NYT stop making phone calls to double check sources? Is this just to throw everyone off the scent of the Pinch CK coupling story?
This "genius get out of jail free card" thing worked for Leadbelly back in the day, and Mr. Ledbetter committed murder. Come on, John Forte, you've got a lot to live up to.
I like passing on old-timey quotes to folks at times like these. 1. You made your bed, now lie in it. 2. Every cloud has a silver lining. 3. When God closes a door, he opens a window.
@GirlyWhirl: I think he was just trying to say that Democrats are all in good shape and have a nice design sense. It was really a compliment. Hatch love the Teletubbies.
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ps: Owen, LOVED the twitterisation of her letter. Neat!
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Two words, 13 characters. See how easy that is, Julie?
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(Why do they ask for all that personal information before they'll condescend to consider publishing a letter from an ordinary person?)
Le New York Times piégé par une fausse lettre de Delanoë
(The NYT duped by a phony letter from Delanoë)
Plus on est de fous, moins on lit.
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Merci beaucoup. :-)
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FUNDS TRANSFER PROPOSAL.
I am the
Director of project implementation with the South Africa Department of
Mining & Energy Resources. First and foremost, I apologize using this
medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this
is due to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
Be informed that a member of the South Africa Export Promotion Council
(SEPC) who was a member of the South African Government delegation to
your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable
credentials/particulars to me.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the
execution of the transaction described hereunder for the benefit of all
parties and hope you will keep it as confidential, because of the nature
of this transaction. Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources
where I work as a director of project implementation and with the
cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession as
overdue payment bills amounting to Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
US Dollars (US$18,500,000.00) which we want to transfer abroad with the
assistance and cooperation of a reliable foreign company/individual to
receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company
account to receive such funds.
More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the South Africa
Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore
account hence your importance in the whole transaction.
This amount (US$18.5m) represents the balance of the total contract value
executed on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which
we the officials over-invoiced deliberately. Though the actual contract
cost have been paid to the original contractor, leaving the balance in the
tune of the said amount which we have in principles gotten approval to
remit by Telegraphic Transfer (T. T) to any foreign bank account you will
provide by filing in an application through the Justice Ministry here in
South Africa for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former
contractor to you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be
willing to assist us in this transaction by way of providing the required
account in receiving these funds, your share of the entire sum will be 30%
while 60% amounting for me and my colleagues and 10% will be used to
settle taxation and other miscellaneous expenses in the course of
transferring the funds to your account.
The Transaction itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it
with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also your area of specialization
is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not disappoint
me. Endeavour to contact me immediately, whether or not you are
interested in this deal.
If you are not, it will enable me contact another Foreign partner with
similar recommendation to carry out this transaction.
I want to assure you that myself and my partners are in a position to
make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very
strong assurance and guarantee that our share will be secured and Please
remember to treat this matter as very confidential matter; because we
will not comprehend with any form of exposure as we are still in active
Government Service and remember once again that time is of the essence in
this business.
Please reply urgently via my secured email address and
furnish me with your CONTACT ADDRESS,TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS for further
details.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation. I am available to
entertain any questions concerning the clarity of this transaction.
Yours faithfully,
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Next you're going to tell me that this, too, is un mensonge:
Toutes les nouvelles qui méritent d'être imprimées"
[fr.wikipedia.org]
Very revealing screw-up.
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Oui, oui. Exactement. :-)
(It's also in the French Wiki article. I hate it when people post foreign words without giving me a way to figure out the meaning.)
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1. You made your bed, now lie in it.
2. Every cloud has a silver lining.
3. When God closes a door, he opens a window.
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Especially Tinky Winky.
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