OK, after the 1st and 2nd million have failed to inspire the witch doctor to do any visible harm on your subordinate, doesn’t that constitute some kind of hint that maybe, just maybe, this isn’t working? Wouldn’t it be better to take the balance and go to the Caribbean and drink daiquiris all day?
10% is a bit on the low side, no? Most business opportunities I get from respectable Nigerian Financial Institutions offer a share ranging from 15 to 25%.
I’ve been tempted to write back and demand at least 40% for my trouble, reminding them that 20% of $57,500,000 just doesn’t go as far as it used to. Then I hit ‘delete’ instead
I’ve written back to them, and once I even got a conversation going. My correspondent was the world-renowned and esteemed Dr. Abebe. We exchanged about 6-7 emails before he realized I was pulling his leg, and then he just stopped.
I started by pretending to be a Count in a non-existent European country (and he confirmed that he could ship the necessary documents there!) but at the end, I was pretending that my workers had discovered an oil-field in my lands and I needed his business connections to sell the drilling rights. He broke off the conversation then. In the same email, I also mentioned vampire ducks (mascots of said country) so I may have overdone it a bit…
A friend of mine once replied that 15% of 20.000.000 (or whatever the numbers were) was of no consequence for “a millionaire” and therefore not worth his time, and the other guy not only replied to the email but also started sending instant messages on Yahoo Messenger in order to negotiate some new sharing agreement.
