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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: "Olu Philips" <oluphilip@contractcommittees.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2005 11:10:22 -0500
Subject: RESPOND A.S.A.P.
DR. OLU PHILIPS.
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT,
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Urgent & confidential.
THE C.E.O,
Best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits
particularly through my proposal as contained in this
letter.Before going in details of my proposal to you, I
must first solicit you to treat it with utmost
confidentiality, as this is required for its success.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal
Government of Nigeria`s Contracts Review Panel who are
interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating
in the accounts of the Central Bank of Nigeria.In order to
commence this transaction, we solicit for your assistance
to enable us transfer into your account the said floating
funds. We are determined to conclude the transfer before
the end of this financial quarter.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the last
military regime, government officials awarded contracts
that were grossly over-invoiced to Contractors.The present
civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel,
which has the mandate to use the instruments of payments
made available to it by the decree setting up the panel,
to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who
are being owed outstanding amount.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of
these funds which are presently floating in the Central
Bank of Nigeria ready for disbursement and would like to
divert some of it for our own purposes.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and
members of this panel,we cannot acquire these funds in
our names or in the names of companies that are based in
Nigeria. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of
trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable
overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the sum
of U.S.$16,500,000.00(sixteen Million,five hundred thousand
U.S. Dollars).
That is why I am writing you this letter.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project
in foreign stock markets and other business till we are ready
and able to have access to them. Please note that this
transaction is 100% safe and risk-free.We intend to effect
the transfer within a few days from the date of
receipt of the following information:
1.Your name,
2.Company`s name
3.Address and telephone and fax
numbers.
The above information will enable us write letters of claim and
job description respectively. This way, we will use your company`s name to
apply for the payment and backdate the award of the contract to your
company.
We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and
we solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter and, I will bring
you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I
hear from you.
I advise that you indicate in your response the percentage that,
you will accept for this disposition so that, I can discuss
this with my other colleagues.
Best regards,
DR. OLU PHILIPS.
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