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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: owenp@handbag.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:49:38 +0200
Subject: CHIEF. PAUL OWEN
CHIEF. PAUL OWEN
FINANCE/PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION DIRECTOR
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX
LOME,REPUBLIC OF TOGO
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL paulowen61@netscape.net
Sir,
I am writing you on the strength of our search for a foreign investment opportunity,
partnership or individual, who can be trusted to oversee a foreign investment
project.
I got your contact information from a former director of Togolaise Import
and Export Trade Promotion Council (TIETPC) who assured me your capability
and good reputation in investment project. Although, I did not disclose to
him the face value of the transaction which I want to discuss with you.
We are the officials of the TOGOLAISE LIQUIFIED NATURAL GAS (TLNG), an affiliate
of Togolaise National Petroleum Cooperation (TNPC). After due deliberation
with my colleagues in the ministry, I was therefore mandated as a matter
of trust to contact you as a partner to whom we could transfer a reasonable
amount for foreign investment project, hence the need for a foreign partner.
I have decided to seek for a confidential co-operation with you in the execution
of this transaction described hereunder for the benefit of all parties and
I hope you will maintain absolute secrecy because we are government officials.
Within my ministry where I work as a Director of Finance/Project Implementation,
and with the co-operation of other top officials, we have in our possession
an overdue payment bill which we want to transfer with the assistance and
cooperation of a foreign company or an individual to receive the said fund
on our behalf, or a reliable foreign non-company account that will accommodate
such fund. The amount $17.3M USD represents some percentage of the contract
value executed on behalf of my Ministry by a foreign contracting firm, which
we the officials purposely over inflated for our own use.
Although the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor,
leaving the balance in an escrow account which we have in principle received
an approval to remit to a foreign bank account that you will provide. Since
the Togolaise Government is determined to pay every Foreign Contractor all
debts owe so as to maintain good relationship with foreign and non Government
Financial Agencies, we then decided to include our bill for approval with
the cooperation of some officials from the appropriate federal payment agency.
We are seeking your assistance in providing a good company's account or any
other bank account into which we can remit this money by acting as our main
partner and trustee or acting as the original contractor. This we can do
by swapping of account and changing of beneficiary and other forms of documentation
upon application for claim to reflect the payment and approvals to be secured
on your behalf.
This process being an internal arrangement with the department concern. I
have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be
willing to assist in the transaction, we will share the money as thus: 20%
of the total fund for you the account owner, 75% for us (the officials) and
5% to settle any expenses in the course of this transaction.
Please be informed that my colleagues and myself will be depending on your
kind advise and directives as we wish to privately invest our share of the
fund into a foreign products both in Togo and your country as you may advise
in due course. So you will be expected to provide us with a background information
concerning yourself and your company to enable us make an evaluation and
conclude on which line of business to take.
Note that it is important to maintain absolute
confidentiality of this business because my colleagues and I are top Government
Officials who have put in many years of meritorious service to our ministries
and would not want to experience any kind of exposure that will jeopardize
our image. I wish to assure you that this transaction is expected to take
14 working days for the fund to get into your nominated bank account.
please send all reply to my private email address(paulowen61@netscape.net)
Thanks as I patiently anticipate receiving your urgent response.
Faithfully yours,
CHIEF PAUL OWEN
LOME TOGO
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