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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: drmm4@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:57:37 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20PLEASE=20GET=20BACK=20TO=20ME?=
DR MUSA MALIK,
Adeniyi Jones St Ikeja Off.
40/42 Ago Palace Way
Okota - Isolo
Lagos - Nigeria
Att email; drmusamalik@echina.com
PERMISSION TO REMIT US $21 MILLION INTO YOUR COMPANY OR
PRIVATE ACCOUNT.
It is my pleasure to write and inform you of a transaction involving the
transfer of US21,000,000.00 (Twenty One million US dollars)only into a foreign
account for safekeeping pending my arrival with my colleagues for the sharing
with you as the
account owner into which the money is remitted.
I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),
Lagos and this money originated from over-invoiced contract executed for
the corporation some
years back. This contract has long been completed by a foreign firm and
the contractor duly paid. I now seek if you would permit the surplus to
be remitted into your
account. As a matter of fact, we are top government officials and we cannot
come out openly to claim this amount. This is why we are looking for a competent
and
honest company or individual abroad whose documents would be tendered by
us here in Nigeria as one of the contractors that executed the project.
However, I would wish to receive your personal assurance
that you would not sit on the money when it goes into your account. More
importantly,
you keep confidential this transaction, in order not to tarnish the confidence
repose in the officials involved in this transaction. To effect this transfer,
I therefore requestthe following:
YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER, THE NAME OF YOUR BANK. WHERE THE MONEY
WOULD BE TRANSFERRED INTO AND ALSO YOUR PRIVATE FAX AND
TELEPHONE NUMBERS FOR QUICK COMMUNICATION. So far, after due consultations,
you were strongly and reliably recommended to us although we have not met
or entered intoany kind of contract with you before as to know the extent
of your honesty, but based on the recommendations, I personally want to
believe that you are honest enough and would not sit on the money if finally
got into
your account. It is on this note that I consider it proper to write you
asking for your permission and support to transfer this amount into your
account. You should not fear any risk because we have concluded arrangement
to save guide you in the transaction. This business is 100% risk free.
Hence it requires high level of confidence and secrecy. Meanwhile this is
the breakdown of the sharing modalities:
(A). 10% WILL BE USED TO SETTLE TRANSFER CHARGES AND LEGAL
PROTOCOLS.
(B). 30% IS FOR USING YOUR ACCOUNT. (C). 60% OF IT WILL BE
FOR US THE ORIGINATORS. Be informed that on completion of
this business I will use part of my money to invest in your
country under your care.
Please note that the transfer operation will take seven to
ten working days to be completed. Please contact me by the
above private EMAIL drmusamalik@echina.com
Thanks.
DR MUSA MALIK.
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