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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: "CHIEF NATHANIEL ABIOLA OWOH" <nathanabiolaowoh@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 05:45:30 -0700
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE REQUIRED URGENT
I must apologize for the manner I have just contacted you it is as a result of the nature of this transaction as being urgent.
I am Chief Nathaniel Abiola Owoh presently the Chief Accountant in the Audit Bureau of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) . I was once the head of the tender’s Board in charge of Contract Awards and Payment Approvals; I came to know of you in my recent and urgent search for a reliable, trustworthy and Reputable Foreigner that is capable to handle a transaction of this nature, that involves the confidential transfer of FUNDS from me here to you, as my Foreign Partner.
There were series of contracts payments that is pending on may table presently, for contracts executed by Consortium of Multinationals in the oil industry in favor of NLNG among which was:
The expansion of the pipeline network from Bonny Island to Discharging point in Soku all in River-State,
The original value of these contracts was over-invoiced in the sum of USD Fifteen Million dollars ($15,000.000.00) I have made the discovery as at the time I was with the Tenders board 3 years ago, awaiting the appropriate time to utilize the value, as it stands now the contract payments which has now been approved and is now ready to be paid out by me as the present chief Accountant.
With the present position and opportunity like this for utilisation, I am soliciting for your urgent partnership as to enable me transfer this Funds that has been pending here for 3 (three)Years now into you Account, pending my arrival there in your Country for Utilization. As I here as a civil servants is prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (civil service laws) from opening /or operating a foreign accounts in my names. More so payment has to be made directly to a foreign nationality, it is on this arrangement I am soliciting your urgent partnership, as to enable me transfer the said Fund through your Corporation from here in my Country to your Foreign Account.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous, for the fact that all arrangement on this has been perfected by me as the Chief Accountant to ensure there is no form of risk on your side,
Note: That for the reason that I am a Civil servant and the strictness of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on we Civil Servants and acquired Wealth, I have resolved that you are to assist me while I am there in your Country, in investing this money there in your Country under your supervision pending my retirement for settlement there in your Country and to perfect this I will offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction.
To carry out this Transfer you are to forward to me the following:
1)NAME IN FULL.
2)CONTACT ADDRESS IN FULL.
3)YOUR PRIVATE TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS.
4)MOBILE NUMBERS
Forward these Informations through this e-mail address for more details:nathanabiolaowoh@shymail.com
Yours sincerely,
Chief Nathaniel Abiola Owoh
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