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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: mike-ade@handbag.com
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 03:26:17 +0100
Subject: Please your urgent response
Dear
you may really be surprised when you received my mail since we have just
met breifly dont be offended i am in dire need of your assistance to facilitate
a rewarding tranaction
I am MR mike k Adeola,Project Accountant and Chairman of the Contract Award
Committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC), in the last
military regime under the leadership of General Abdulsalam Abubakar and presently
i am still maintaining the same position.In the year 1998 my cooperation
was awarded some contracts for refurbishing of the petro-chemical complex
at Eleme,supply and installation of rigging and drilling eqiupment,repairing
of Warri and Port-Harcourt Refineries and Turn Around Maintenance(TAM ) to
consortium of Chiyoda,spie batgroles,fougrolle and bonygues for $420,000,000.00
but with my privileged position , the contract value was over-invoiced to
$465,000,000.00 .Last year ,the contractors received part of their payments
and right now we are receiving the balance of the payments .In this view,we
require an honest and trustworthy person who will not betray our trust to
use his company and account to transfer out the balance of the over in-voiced
sum , because we were betrayed and cheated out last year.
The total sum over-invoiced was $30m .Last year as the contractors were receiving
their payments, we entered into an agreement with one Mr Anthonio Abacci,an
Italian and President of Reggesini Motori SPA of 42100 villa Bagno region
Emilia to use his account number 00026907026633 with First Pacific Bank Ltd
of 57059 chaihan to transfer out the sum of $15m of the total $30m over-invoiced
The first $15m was successfully transfered to his account and we agreed that
at the completion of of the transfer ,he would retain 20% while 75% will
be for us and 5% for the expenses incurred during the process of the transfer
which lasted 21 working days ,but out of greed he betrayed the trust which
we reposed on him and cheated us out and made away with the whole $15m .All
attempts to trace his whereabouts proved abortive as he smartly changed both
his telephone numbers and house address. My colleagues and i,after fruitlessly
trying to trace him have decided to put this ugly incident behind us
and allow Mr Abacci"s conscience to be his judge.
Now we do not wish to fall victim a second time,that is why we want to bestow
this trust on you and it is our sincere wish that you do not betray it because
"once beaten,twice shy".So it is because of the balance of $15m which we
now have left that we are sending you this confidential e-mail and bacause
of the bad exparience we had last year,we have favoured an incentive of 30%
to you as the account owner and 10% to offset all expenses .
You should as a matter of urgency,confirm to me your trustworthiness and
acceptance of this proposal through the EMAIL ADDRESS mike-adeola@fsmail.net
Please your urgent response is greatly required and should you not be in
a position to assist,kindly inform me as quickly as possible so that i could
make an alternative arrangement
Thanks for your cooperation
Yours faithfully
Mr mike k Adeola
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