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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: "SABATER FARADAY" <sabaterfaraday@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drjohnkayode@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 03:35:00 +0000
Subject: Reply Soon
Dear Friend,
I came to know about you in my search for a reliable and reputable
person/company to handle a confidential business transaction that requires
transfer of sum of Twenty-One Million, Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($21.5m) into a foreign account. We believe that you would be in a position
to help us.
We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the
ministry of petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with contract
appraisals and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards
capital project of the federal government of Nigeria. With our positions, we
have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of ($21.5m), this amount was
accumulated through undeclared windfall from sales of crude oil during the
gulf war.
You will be required to:
(1) Assist us to provide a safe account into which the funds will be
transferred since government officials in my country are not allowed by our
laws to operate foreign account.
(2) Advise on lucrative areas for investment and Assist us in purchase of
properties.
If you decide to render your service to us in this regard, It has been
agreed that the owner of the account will be compensated with US$4.3 million
of the remitted funds, we keep US$16.125 million, while US$1.075 million
will be set aside to offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes. I
guarantee you that the entire transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law,
before the release of the fund, all modalities of the transfer have been
worked out,
I will require your urgent reply and kindly forward your telephone and fax
numbers to enable us discuss the next step.
Truly Yours
John Kayode.
CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information in this transmission is intended
only for the email above. you should not copy or use it for any purpose,
nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you.
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