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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: "Dr Disk man" <disndman@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: diskandman@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 01:29:05 -0800
Subject: REPLY
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION:
ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER US$31M INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.
I got your contact address through the directory of companies supplied to my office by the Government of your Country.
However, I am a member of the “Contract Tender Committee” of the Federal Government of Nigeria. I have been mandated by the Chairman Contract Tender Board of the Government to source for a trusted foreign account where the sum of US$31,000,000.00 U.S. Dollars will be transferred into.
The Thirty One Million U.S. Dollars is an accumulation of over invoiced contracts which have already been executed and commissioned. This amount still lies in the Ministry’s suspense account with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and still appears in the fiscal auditing as retention fee owed to a foreign company.
To transfer this money to the Foreign Company’s Account, a fresh file has to be opened here in the Foreign Company’s Name. Therefore, we requested you to furnish us with your banking particulars thus: NAME OF ACCOUNT; ACCOUNT NUMBER; NAME OF BANK BRANCH; YOUR BANK’S TELEPHONE/FAX NUMBERS; YOUR BANK’S TELEX NUMBER: THE SWIFT NUMBER OF YOUR ACCOUNT. These documents should be faxed to me immediately you indicate your interest in this project to enable us obtain all the necessary approvals from the relevant Government Authorities. It has been agreed that you retain 30% of the US$31,000,000.00 U.S. Dollars, 10% has been set aside to offset any expenses that may occur, while we would the take the remaining 60%.
To confide in you Sir, all logistics are in place and modalities have been worked out with some top officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) and Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to facilitate the smooth and easy remittance of the into your account within fourteen days of getting your positive response and confirmed consent.
It is worthy to inform you that this transaction is entirely based on trust since this is going to be paid into your own bank account. Conscience demands that we be sincere to ourselves.
Bear in mind that this absolutely a private and personal deal, non-official, and should be treated with all measure of secrecy and absolute confidentiality.
Pls you con email on this) diskman@mail.uv
Yours faithfully,
Disk man (PhD, Jp, Mon)
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