I received an email from one Mrs. Reem Nasser saying that she has a legit and genuine lucrative business deal to discuss with me. That is, if I was interested. She presented herself as the Sales/Marketing Manager of Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.
Below, you'll find my communication with her. My comments are in red.
The email from Mrs. Reem Nasser
From: Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company <osvaldo@mcinfor.com.br> (Saudi Arabian oil company executive sending email from a Brazilian domain?? Phishy, oops Fishy.
Sent: 26 June 2022 15:01
To: Recipients <osvaldo@mcinfor.com.br> (Looks like Reem Nasser is actually some Osvaldo from Brazil)
Subject: Oil Contract
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.
P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311,
Dhahran-Saudi Arabia.
Hello,
I have a legit and genuine lucrative business deal to discuss with you.
Can i trust you to be a sincere partner to handle the business?
Regards,
Mrs. Reem Nasser,
Sales/Marketing Manager
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company
This email from Mrs. Reem Nasser is suspect
The email is too short for the sender to have made grammatical mistakes! However, as I have mentioned earlier, a Saudi executive using Brazilian email service is HIGHLY suspect.
Also, the email is not addressed to me specifically but to a mailing list. Always a RED Herring.
Suspicious Email
Any email that is addressed to undisclosed-recipients: makes me suspicious. The sender is Phishing for someone to take the bait.
This email however had no links. Just an email address to reply to.
So, I “took” the bait and wrote back to Mrs. Reem Nasser as directed. After all, who can resist a “legit and genuine lucrative business deal” from a Saudi Arabian Oil Company?
My Reply to Mrs. Reem Nasser
To: reemnasser003302@gmail.com (Please note that the reply to email is different. It is not the Brazilian domain email). I have never used different email ids – one to send emails and other to receive replies on. Who does that??
Sun, 26 Jun at 8:59 pm
Mrs. Reem Nasser
Thanks you for your email.
Yes, I am interested in the Oil Contract.
Please share details
Sanjeev Sharma
Reply received from Mrs. Reem Nasser within 24 hours
I received a detailed reply from Mrs. Reem Nasser in less than 24 hours. The contents of the reply are reproduced below. My comments are as usual in red.
Business Offer from Mrs. Reem Nasser
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company <reemnasser003302@gmail.com>
To: Sanjeev Sharma (The email I replied from was different from the one on which I had received the first email. Either they did not notice or the list is too big for them to bother. Either way, it proves that they are scamming)
Mon, 27 Jun at 2:34 am
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.
P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311,
Dhahran-Saudi Arabia.</reemnasser003302@gmail.com>
Hello, (Still a Hello? No greeting by my personal name? Is it an autoresponse email? But sure my name could have been picked up. Anyway, I will ignore this lack of courtesy)
Thanks for your response. We found you through the web search (liar, liar!) and we thought It will be a great opportunity for you to be involved in a contract partnership business deal with Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company. We are Saudi Arabian Petroleum and Natural Gas Production Company. Our Office Address is P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest producer and exporter of Crude Oil in the world. Produces a whopping 13.24 percent of all the oil produced daily in the entire world. Considering that they sit on over 260 billion barrels of oil–the second highest total after Venezuela–the fortune of the House of Saudi appears secure. Its crown as oil champion, however, is less secure: when accounting for energy production including natural gas and biofuels, Being the largest Crude Oil producers and exporters of the world, the Kingdom plays a vital role in the global energy industry. (Direct word-to-word pick from Finances Online)
Origin:………..Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Quantity:……..11.75 million barrels per day (That's their TOTAL per day production and they are offering to sell all of that through me! Wow. I must be BIG)
Contract period:……..24 months
Delivery:……..Saudi Aramco Export Terminal
Price:……….. As Agreed in Contract
Saudi Aramco Company is offering you a contract partnership business deal. You will be paid an 8% salary profit for each Crude Oil Barrels sold to each of our buyers.
We are going to prepare all the relevant Documents to Register a Local Company here in your name as required by the laws of the land with the help of a Legal Expert team. (Why in my name? Why not a Joint Venture Comapny with me and the Saudi Oil as partners? But, what the hell, Who am I to question such corporate decisions?) Also will be responsible for the exportation/sales of these barrels and the expenses involved. Once the barrels have been exported and sold we shall Share in the ratio of 92% for the company considering the fact that we are the originators/initiators and initial financier of this partnership business and then 8% for you. (I am ok with 8%. But am feeling a little greedy. So, I'll ask for at least 10%)
The company will authorize the legal expert team to commence with the registration of the new local company with your name paper work as soon as you indicate your total interest.
Await your urgent reply.
Regards,
Mrs.Reem Nasser,
Sales/Marketing Manager
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company
Email from Reem Nasser contained information taken from the internet
As I mentioned in the comments above, a complete paragraph in the email with information about Saudi Arabia's oil production status was taken verbatim by Mrs. Reem Nasser from an article in FinancesOnline
This is the cleverness of the scammers. They always base their proposals on some truth – lest you search around
Anyway, I have replied in the affirmative. And I have asked for an increase in the commission. Let's see what happens.
My reply to Mrs. Reem Nasser
To:Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company
Mon, 27 Jun at 10:45 am
Dear Mrs, Reem Nasser,
Thank you for the quick reply. It is a huge opportunity. I understand that oil is gold these days. So I am happy to take the business offer.
I have one small request. Can you make my salary profit as 10% instead of 8%? That will be very nice.
Rest, I am ok with going ahead.
You may go ahead and register a local company for the business.
best regards
Sanjeev Sharma
I did not see reply from Mrs. Reem Nasser for quite sometime
For many days I did not ‘get' any reply from her. I thought that my request to increase the salary commission to 10% has put her off. Yesterday, however I checked my spam folder and lo and behold. Her reply was there. And I realized that the reply had been sent on the same day as my email!
Reply from Mrs. Reem Nasser
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company <reemnasser003302@gmail.com>
To:
Sanjeev Sharma
Mon, 27 Jun at 12:57 pm
Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company.
P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311,
Dhahran-Saudi Arabia.
Hello Sanjeev Sharma,
Sorry it is 8% we can offrer. (Awww. That's sad. I guess I'll have to make do with 8% only) I give you my trust and guarantee as we are going to work together and I promise that I will be very honest and sincere with you. (I believe that with a few bags of salt)
At this point, here is an attached copy of the Company registration form document. You are required to fill and sign the company registration Form and return it back urgently. You need to print out the documents then sign and attach and send them back to me via email. That is how I need them, for authenticity. You are only required to fill in by writing on it and sign on the left side bearing the Beneficiary signature.
NOTE: When filling the Company registration form for the company details; write the Company name as Sharma Oil & Gas Company. (I like the Sharma Oil & Gas Company bit. Imagine having an Oil & Gas company in your name in Saudi Arab) Company address as P.O. Box 5000. Dhahran 31311, Saudi Arabia. Then for the personal details write your complete names and your home address.
Your major obligation in this deal is to set up an offshore account, manage, disburse funds accrued from the sales of these crude daily in an offshore account with a bank that will be communicated to you at a later date. We don't want the money here in Saudi Arabia due to the ever changing political situations. You will be responsible for setting up this account. All proceeds from the sales of the crude oil products will be channeled into the new offshore account that you will set up in your name. I am going to send you the bank contact information for the opening of the offshore account.
Hence the company will be registered in your name here in Saudi Arabia. It will be called Sharma Oil & Gas Company. Your physical presence in Saudi Arabia to stand as the independent foreign contractor is not really important, i will handle all cost/facilities/manpower required to explore/store/export these barrels. These are our primary responsibilities.
I am going to send you the bank contact details where the Offshore account will be set up. It will protect us from any insecurity and international financial regulatory agency's scrutiny, as crude oil buyers have a way of doing business to avoid raising eyebrows since they are in key positions in government so let them be our guide in that regard as to where to Bank the funds they are providing which will transcend into our business purse in the long run once the operations start fully. Please adhere to my instructions.
You will manage and notify of any funds you receive in the account and would be given instructions for wires also to all the necessary parties. Kindly send the below information for authenticity.
Full Name:
Contact Address:
Country:
Mobile Number:
Date Of Birth:
Gender:
Occupation:
Company Name:
Company Address:
Job Position:
Company Phone number:
As a matter of fact we expect $100 Million USD first in the coming day from a Georgian buyer who is already on ground and there is the need to speed up the account opening as I would need to forward the details to him and this means your 8% is certain as soon as the funds is confirmed in your account.
Meanwhile, attached to this message is the application form which you are to fill and send it back to us via email to enable us create your file in our office and also to enable our legal department to prepare the MOA that will back up this transaction between you and our company.
Time is not our friend, We’ll start exporting immediately and we will secure the License for your company name (Sharma Oil & Gas Company). I await the filled application form with a copy of your international passport for your identification.
Company Registration Form shared by Reem Nasser
You can see below the Company Regsitration form shared by Reem Nasser. It was pdf file. I downloaded it because I have an antivirus on my device. If I did not have one there is no way I'd have downloaded it.
My reply to Mrs. Reem Nasser
Sanjeev Sharma
To: Saudi Aramco Crude Oil Company
Wed, 20 Jul at 3:25 pm
Hello Mrs. Nasser,
My apologies for the delay in writing back. I don't know why your email went to the spam folder. I do not check the spam folder everyday and hence missed it totally. Only yesterday I saw the spam folder and found your email there. Really sorry for that.
Ok. I get it that it will be 8% only. I can live with that. If the first buyer is for 100 million USD even at 8% it comes to 8 Million USD as my share. That is quite handsome.
I am travelling these days. I am out of the country and will be back only by second week of August. I know things are getting delayed because of that. But am unable to do anything.
In the meantime you can share the details for setting up a Bank account. Or would that be only after the company is registered? I don't know. I think you are the best judge of that.
Are we not going to have a bank account in Saudi Arab at all? So will the payments for our exports come directly into the offshore account? Who will be the signatories of that account? How will we manage it?
Oh. I have so many questions.
I look forward to your guidance.
best regards
Sanjeev Sharma
Will keep you posted on what happens next…
Last updated on July 20, 2022
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