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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.
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Fraud email example:
From: "maxugo1@emuita.net" <maxugo1@emuita.net>
Reply-To: maxugo_65@myway.com
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:49:14 +0200
Subject: GET BACK TO ME FOR MORE DETAILS
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the oil ministry here in Nigeria, for
security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your email address for now.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal,
we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight million, six hundred thousand united state bills
(us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by
us under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the
concerned ministries. The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid
his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of us28.6m as the over
invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note
that the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact,
we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10
for tax as may be required by your government.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence the business was
carefully planned before it was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the
deal have put many years in service to our ministry. We have been exercising patience for
this privilege for so long not until the presidential announcement last week, that all
foreign contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency reconcile our
debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is a lifetime blessing we cannot
afford to miss. Upon indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment
application/information form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) bankers name and address, b) account number and
account name and c) your private phone number and email address will enable us seek/secure
approval of the fund from the concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking
days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account, my partner and
I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of
this money in your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I shall furnish you
with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Engr. Max Ugo
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