Dear Miss Young, For my correspondence with "Douglas Komo" I invented a person called Dr. Richard Kelman and the company behind him. This is the original letter from Komo:

From: douglas komo <douglaskomo53@hotmail.com>
Sent: 20 Jul 2005
Subject: TRANSACTION

FROM: DOUGLAS KOMO
PHONE:+27-73-188 0290.

Dear Sir;
I pray this proposal meet your kind cooperation. I am Mr.DOUGLAS KOMO a native of Cape Town in South Africa and I am an Executive Accountant with the South Africa Department of Mining & Natural Resources. First and foremost, I apologized 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 at the Government delegation to your country during a trade exhibition gave your enviable credentials/particulars to me. I plea to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the execution of the deal described Hereunder for the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature of this transaction.

Within the Department of Mining & Natural Resources where I work as an Executive Accountant and with the cooperation of two other top officials, we have in our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Forty - Five Million, Five Hundred And Sixty Thousand U. S. Dollars ($45,560,000.) which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a 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 $45.560m 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 that is 100% hitch free, your share of the sum will be 25% of the $45.560 million, 70% for us and 5% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses. The business 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. Endeavor to contact me immediately through my above Tel number or my e-mail address, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal I want to assure you that my partners and myself 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 as very confidential 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.

I await in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.And you can also reach me with this private PHONE NUMBER 27-731-880-290 FOR MORE INFORMATION.

Yours faithfully,
MR. DOUGLAS KOMO

Mr Komo:

Your communication received and cited below. I am consulting with the Chair of the Banking and Commerce Division to establish whether or not our company will be able to engage this matter.

If the Banking and Commerce Division feels that your proposal warrants our involvement I will get back to you with questions about the details and your requirements, after the Chair replies to my enquiry.

If, after reviewing the information, your proposal still interests us, I will be advising you of the email address of our internal Department of Investigation, which will be looking closely at the international implications of our involvement and present you with our requirements. If you can meet these exacting items, which will include a face to face meeting with our Chief Investigator at your office in Cape Town, a city he knows well, at that time the communication will no longer be by email but will transfer to written communication by international courier with locked case, locked to wrist and under bodyguard.

If you are not able to participate in this matter under these simple requirements, please advise me NOW before I go further. I do not wish to waste the time of the Chair of the Banking and Commerce Division. Please do not ask me for his name and email address, since he depends upon me alone to present him with proposals for our involvement.

I will not be calling you on the telephone, as the Division insists on everything in writing, especially in large financial transactions such as this proposal.

Cordially yours,
Dr. Richard Kelman, MD

From: douglas komo <douglaskomo53@hotmail.com>
Sent: 25 Jul 2005

DEAR I AM WAITING AND READY. DOUGLAS

Mr. Komo,

I wrote you a long letter in reply to your appeal. I consider your response, , to be most unprofessional and not befitting the seriousness of the transaction you proposed, involving millions of dollars. You did not even address me by name!

I personally am interested in your proposal, but I cannot present this letter to the Chair of the Banking and Commerce Division. Please try again to answer my original letter so that I have something to present.

Dr. Richard Kelman, MD

Dear Mr. Komo

I have decided not to present your latest letter to the Chair of the Banking and Commerce Division, as this afternoon he contacted me and asked me to follow up with the following questions. Please note, ALL of them must be answered in detail with checkable answers. We have ways of checking that will preserve the confidentiality of this matter and shield not only us but you from unnecessary fol-de-rol in terms of interference.

1. What is your full name, title, address, and phone number? Also we want the names of all the principals in this matter.
2. How did you come to be in the position you hold? Are you appointed, and if so, by whom?
3. Your letter states that you came by the $45+ million by means of fraud: "we the officials over-invoiced deliberately." Our company is a multi-million-dollar concern with legal business interests in many countries. Please explain why we should risk our good name by helping you compound the fraud by taking it international, compounding the crime and violating not only your country's laws but our own trade and securities statutes. In addition there is an International Tribunal for pursuit of Maritime Law which involves violation of international trade, security, and currency agreements. Of course, if your attorneys have checked it all out and it is a legal transfer, you can submit their report. A mere "We checked, and it's OK," won't do at all. We need details of what EXACTLY the law says, and exactly WHO said it was legal. In addition we need contact, NOT telephone, information for that person. After we receive this information we will turn it over to our own Legal Department for further study.
4. Please explain in detail how this transaction would work step by step and list the steps in order, noting how long each one would take.
5. What are your requirements? What would you need us to do in order to participate?
6. How soon, assuming that we come to an agreement, would you wish to proceed?

Please answer all questions in the order given, and get back to me.

Sincerely,
Dr. Richard Kelman, MD

From: douglas komo <douglaskomo53@hotmail.com>

FROM: DOUGLAS KOMO
PHONE:+27-73-188 0290.

Dear Dr. Richard Kelman,

Further to our mail correspondence, on behalf of my colleagues, I wish to clearly intimate you on the following procedures regarding this transaction. We have made every arrangement to achieve smooth and hitch free transaction so you have to adhere to our plans to assure great conclusion.

We have discussed extensively on this project and unanimously agreed that the following procedures are essential for this transaction.
1. Your company account / personal are suitable for this transaction, as we have every legal document / process to follow before these funds will be transferred into your account. Regarding our own share of this fund, I and my colleagues will be physically present in your country with you before we share the funds. We will meet you with all the original documents related to this transaction so that your bankers and your government will not see this funds as Drug related money or money Laundry.
2. I will be faxing to you the Indemnity Application form which you will fill in the required information and send it back to me to enable the trustee of the original contractor Engr. Chris Cosa to proceed to the Justice Ministry to swear an affidavit transferring the Right and Privileges of the original Contractor to your company's favour as the sub-beneficiary to this overdue contract sum.
3. After swearing this affidavit, we will register your company with my Department and incorporate your company with the Close Company Department. This registration document will be used for the official application for these funds through various departments within the Government Parastatals. All these process will be closely monitored by us and our contact personnel. We will send through fax to you, copies of all the approval documents obtained regarding this funds transfer for your perusal.

This transaction is 100% risk free; we have mapped out all the modalities to give this transaction a legal backing in order not to contradict the laws of your country and my own country, now and in the nearest future. We also hope that you have agreed with our terms regarding the sharing modalities of these funds?
Endeavour to fill the Indemnity Form and fax it back to me immediately. Note that it is very important you call me on daily basis to ensure that you have adequate information of our progression. We also agreed that you should fax alongside with the Indemnity Form, a copy of your international passport or driver's license for identification purposes. Endeavour to furnish me with your contact telephone and fax numbers to enable me fax the Indemnity form across to you.

From now on, you have to reach me with my private Telephone setup purposely for this transaction: +27 73 188 0290. Call me as soon as you receive this fax message for further clarification.

Best regards,
DOUGLAS KOMO

Dear Mr. Komo,

I have received your latest communication. I can only assume you are working on the answers to the questions in my last email.

Of course I shall NOT be calling you. No reputable company does business of this magnitude over the phone. Didn't I mention this before? Also, I will not be providing my personal information as yet. We certainly are not to that point yet.

I await the detailed answers to my questions. Everything on this end is in a holding pattern until I receive them and they are approved. We especially need an answer on the fraud question.

Cordially yours,
Dr. Richard Kelman, MD

From: douglas komo <douglaskomo53@hotmail.com>

FROM: DOUGLAS KOMO
PHONE:+27-73-188 0290.