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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: "Mr. Johnson Roger" <johnroger8@excite.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: rogerjohn888@mail.ru
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:48:33 +0200
Subject: Attention: President/Director,
Attention: President/Director,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Natural resources
ministry here in Dakar Senegal, for security reasons, I may not wish to
disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from you.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this
business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight
million, six hundred thousand united state bills ($28.6M) into your
account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us
under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract.
Now, we are left with the balance of $28.6M as the over invoiced amount,
which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that
the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence
this contact, we have agreed to share the money in the following
percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your
government, because we dont need anything will delay this money when it
arrive in your bank account.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence
the business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and
we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to our
ministry. We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long
not until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign
contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency
reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is
a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your
interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information
form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) Your full name and address, b)
Company Name and Address c) your private phone number with your age will
enable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned government
quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank
account,my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our
own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I shall
furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will be
highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Mr. Johnson Roger
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