text: "Sir ASSISTANCE REQUIRED FOR ACQUISITION OF ESTATE I have been detailed by the Director Audit / Accounts Allocations Department Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources Dr. John Akiga and other colleagues to write and inform you of our desire to acquire estates or landed properties in your country with funds currently trapped at our Accounts with the Central bank of Nigeria (CBN) Considering his very strategic and influential position he would want the transaction to be as strictly confidential as possible. He would further want our identity and yours to remain undisclosed outside this circle at least for now untill the completion of the transaction. We desire to have an overseas agent in order to make a smooth transfer without hitch. I therefore take this opportunity to inquire if you would agree to act as our overseas agent in order to actualize this transaction. The deal in brief is that the funds with which we intend to carry out our proposed investments in your country is presently in a coded account at the Nigerian Apex Bank (i.e. the Central Bank of Nigeria) and we need your assistance to transfer the funds to your country in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before we can put the funds into use in your country. For this you shall be considered to have executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria for which payment should be effected to you by the Ministry The contract sum shall be US$17.4 Million of which your share shall be 20% if you agree to be our overseas agent. "