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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: adioomms@yahoo.it
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:09:25 -0800
Subject: ACKNOWLEDGE
E-mail: adioms@hotmail.co.uk
Dear Friend,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the petroluem and natural
resources ministry here in Nigeria, for security reasons, I may not wish to
disclose how I got your email address for now.
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 (US$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
US$28.6Million 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.
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) bankers name and address, b) account
number and account name and c) your private phone number and email address 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,
Eng. Dr. Adams I. S
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