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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: "Engr Alfred Obi" <engralfred@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:34:26 +0100
Subject: Information
From: Engr. Alfred Obi
Chief Accountant Officer
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
105, Adolph Crescent, Victoria Island.
Lagos Nigeria.
Email:engralfred@yahoo.co.uk
Dear Friend,
I am Engr.Alfred Obi, the chief Accountant of The Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and I head a five man tender board in
charge of contract award and payment approvals. I came to know of you
in my search for a reliable person to handle a very confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a
foreign account.
There were series of contracts executed by a consorting of
multinationals in the oil industry in favor of Nigeria National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) among which were for the following:
1. The expansion of the pipelines network within for a crude down
stream products distribution and subsequent evacuation, which cost
$8bUSD(8 Billion United States Dollars).
2. Contract for the turn around maintenance (TAM) of the various
Refineries in the country $115 million United States Dollars.
3. The construction of storage tanks for petroleum products (depots)
$190 Million United States Dollars.
The original value of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced
in the sum $11mUSD (Eleven Million United States Dollars Only)
which has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred, being
that the companies that actually executed these Contracts had been
fully paid when the projects were officially commissioned.
It does not matter whether your company did the contract or not, the
assumption is that your company won the major contract and sub-
contracted it out to other companies. Consequently, my colleagues and I
are willing to transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent
disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the code of
conduct bureau (civil service laws) from opening and or operating
foreign accounts in our names. Needless to say, the trust imposed on
you at this junction is enormous.
In return, we have agreed to offer you 30% of the transferred sum, the
remaining 70% is for us, the Nigerian officials.Modalities have been
worked out at the highest level of the ministry of finance and the
central bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the fund within
14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated terms.
Our assurance is that your role is risk free, I accord this transaction
the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the fund, the whole
approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with the
name of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary of the
above mentioned amount.Therefore, when the business is successfully
concluded we shall through our same connections withdraw all documents
used from all the concerned government ministries for 100% security
risk free. Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over
21 years in the civil service of my country, I am very careful to have
my image and career deemed.
One blank letterhead, one invoice sheet and your bank particulars
through my above address, as time is not on our side in the business.
Send by Email for security reasons:engralfred@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks as I wait in anticipation for your fullest co-operation.
Very truly yours,
Engr.Alfred Obi
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