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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: "Peter Adamu" <peter_adamu@nigeriannationalpetroleum.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 14:34:19 +0000
Subject: Proposal
FROM THE DESK OF
ENGR.PETER ADAMU
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
DEAR SIR,
RE: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
This letter may come to you as a surprise but it was
borne out of my sincere desire to share a mutual
business relationship with you.
Your contact info was given to me by a close associate
of mine attached with the Nigerian Chambers of
Commerce Trade and Industry Abuja- Nigeria, though the
true nature of this transaction was not disclosed to
him.
I am ENGR.BELLO USMAN the Director and Funds
Co-ordinator of the Finance/contract Department of
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) TERMS
OF REFERENCE.
My terms of reference involve the financial management
and disbursement of proceeds from petroleum products
and also the award of contracts to multinational
companies.
My office also has the responsibility of
screening,categorization and proritization of project
embarked upon by the NNPC as well as feasibility
studies of selected project and supervising the
project consultants involved.
A breakdown of the fiscal expenditure by this office
as at the end of the last quarter of 2002 indicates
that the NNPC paid out a whopping sum of US$736M
(Seven Hundred and Thirty Six Million United States
Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries.
The Federal Government has approved the sum of
US$2Billion for the payment of NNPC Foreign
contractors beginning from first quarter of the 2003.
The Crux of this letter is that the Finance/contract
Department of the NNPC deliberately over-inflated the
contract value of the various contract awarded.
In the course of disbursement, this department has
been able to track down the sum of US$9.5M (Nine
Million,Five hundred thousand US Dollars) as the over
invoiced sum. This money is lying floating in the NNPC
domiciliary account with the Central Bank of Nigeria
(CBN).
I and my colleagues now want to quickly transfer this
fund to safe a nominated foreign account for
investment abroad. We are not allowed as a matter of
Government policy to operate any foreign account
because of our status as Civil/Public servants.
Hence our need to solicit for your bank account to
transfer this fund into. We have agreed that after the
money gets into your account, you shall be entitled to
20% the officials and I and my colleagues shall take
70% while 10% has been mapped out for local and
international expenses that may be incurred in the
course of the transfer.Moreso we intend to make you
our fund investment manager as soon as the money get's
transferred into your account and we disburse it,we
intend to invest reasonable part of our share in your
country under your care as our fund investment
manager.
We have set in motion the machinery for the take off
of this transaction and further action will commence
immediately we hear from you. Although, we have not
done any business with you before as to know your
honesty but based on the information obtained from our
Nigeria Chambers of Commerce Trade and Industry we
believe you will not sit on the money when it goes in
your account (i.e only the percentage allocated to
you,that you would take).
We shall like to establish a Memorandum of
Understanding with you. Hence, the need for a Trust
Bond, Furthermore we will put up a claim and invoice
the payment of this money in your favour, we will
require you to send by email immediately the
following:
Your nominated bank particulars together with the name
of the firm that would act as the beneficiary of the
funds including your private telephone and fax number.
As soon as the above particulars are received, we
shall use them to process the approvals for the
payment of the fund into your account within 10 to 14
working days. While looking forward to having 100%
risk free transaction with you, we demand you to keep
this deal confidential at all times,considering the
calibre of people involved,who would not want to
tarnish their image nor betray the trust and
confidence reposed on them by the Government,if you
expose this transaction,understand?
Remember that the real/true nature of your company's
business does not matter in this transaction.Moreso we
intend to make you our fund investment manager as soon
as the fund is transferred into your account and you
acknowledge same as to enable us come over to your
account abode for the sharing of the fund and it's
subsequent investment discussion based on your advice
and directives.
Yours sincerely,
ENGR.PETER ADAMU
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