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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: pauloga5@tiscali.co.uk
Reply-To: pauloga@outgun.com
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 19:25:06 +0100
Subject: REPLY
ENGR. PAUL OGA
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF
WORKS AND HOUSING,
FEDERAL SECRETARIATE
LAGOS NIGERIA
Dear sir,
BUSINESS PROPOSAL
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction; this
is by virtue of its nature as being utterly
confidential and top secret as you were introduced to me in confidence through
the effort of a friend of
mine who was on sabbatical in your country. What I am about to divulge to
you in this letter is top secret
and if it offends or does not meet with your business ethics, I crave your
indulgence.
I am the Chairman of the Contract Review Panel (CRP) set up by the present
civilian Government of Nigeria
to look into the contracts awarded by the past Military regime. In the course
of our work at the CRP, we discovered
that most of these contracts were grossly over invoiced. Contracts awards
were over estimated by top
officials of this ministry in collaboration with top government officials
of the last military administration.
The companies that executed the contracts have been duly paid and the contracts
commissioned leaving
Twenty Two Millions Five Hundred United States Dollars (US$22.5M) floating
in the escrow account of the
Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment. I have therefore been mandated
as a matter of trust by
my colleagues in the CRP to look for an overseas partner to whom we could
transfer the sum of (US$22.5M) only, legally subcontracting the entitlement
to you/your company. This is bearing in mind that our civil service code
of conduct forbids us from owning foreign company or running foreign account
while in government service hence the need for an overseas partner.
We have agreed that the funds will be shared thus after it has been paid
into your account:
(1) 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
fund.
(2)10% has been set aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to
both parties for incidental
expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transaction.
(3) 60% to us the government officials (with which we wish to invest in
various businesses in your country
this is bearing in mind that we can not come back here with the money).
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth
conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen days of commencement
after receipt of the following information: Your full name/ company name,
address, company's details & activities, telephone & fax numbers.
These information will enable us make the applications and lodge claims
to the concerned ministries & agencies in favor of you/your company and
it is pertinent to state here that this transaction is entirely based on
trust as the solar bank draft or certified cheque draw able in any of the
Central Bank of Nigeria correspondent bankers in America, Asia and Europe
is going to be made in your name. Please acknowledge the receipt of this
mail through my email
address.
I await your prompt and positive response to this business proposal.
Yours Faithfully,
Engr. Paul Oga
__________________________________________________________________
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