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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. Lingi Eze" <lingi@web-mail.com.ar> (may be fake)
Reply-To: llingi@web-mail.com.ar
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 12:52:13 -0700
Subject: Attention
PLOT 1121
ADETOKUNBO ADEMOLA STREET
VICTORIA ISLAND-LAGOS
NIGERIA.
Phone: +234 803 552064
Private email address; lingi@web-mail.com.ar
Dear Sir,
RE: BUSINESS PROPOSAL - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
I am DR.LINGI EZE., Chairman to the Contract Review Panel that was
recently inaugurated by the President of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria to review the activities of past military government with
particular reference to contracts awarded by all ministries between
1990 to 1999. In the course of carrying out our assigned duties, we
discovered the sum of USD12.5 (Twelve million, five hundred
thousand dollars) only lying idle in a suspense account with our
apex bank. This
funds emanated from grossly over-invoiced contracts awarded to
conglomerate of foreign firms by the Petroleum Ministry on behalf
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. On completion of
our assignment, this amount was deliberately not included in our
report because we want to capitalize on this once in a lifetime
opportunity to benefit and make a fortune out of it.
The only option we have to achieve our aims and objective is to
have this fund transferred to a country of our choice where it can
be kept in trust and safe custody for us. We are however
handicapped at the moment by our status as civil servants, which
barred us from operating foreign accounts while still in government
service.
Thus, through some discreet inquiries from our Chambers of
Commerce, you and your organization were revealed as being quite
astute in private entrepreneurship.
On this premise, we have no doubt in your ability to handle a
business of this nature, which informed our desire and wish to
enter into a
partnership with you.
This business involves the remittance of this amount into your bank
account with the hope of travelling down to meet you physically in
order to receive our share.
We hope to invest some in profitable ventures in your country based
on your advise while the balance will be repatriated home as
foreign earnings. We have mapped out strategies and all paperwork
is in place to ensure a 100% success.
The nature of your business at present does not really matter
because in the world over, bigger firms do bid for big contracts
especially in
third world countries like ours and can subcontract part of it to
other firms for execution. That is you or your firm will be
regarded as one of those that executed one of such projects and
therefore entitled to receive the over-invoiced amount of the
contract value since
the original contractor has been paid. Be rest assured that this
transaction is 100% risk free as there is actually no risk is
involved either now or in the future for we are well connected in
official circle. Given our level of commitment at the moment, we
want to assure you that with full dedication on your part, the
objective of having this fund remitted would have been realized
within a period of
two weeks. It is hereby expressly agreed in principle that at the
end of the transaction, you will be entitled to 25% of the entire
sum, 70% will be for my colleagues and I while 5% has been
earmarked to take care of any expenses that might arise in the
course of this transaction.
If you are interested in this proposal, please call or send me an
email via: lingi@web-mail.com.ar for more clarifications. If
however you are not interested, still let me know to enable me
search for someone else to carry out this business with.
I anticpate a timely response from you.
Thanks.
Yours Sincerely,
DR.LINGI EZE
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