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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: "mrs mar" <marmrs_05@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kelvin_steve55@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:00:42 +0000
Subject: Dear Friend
MR. KELVIN STEVE
Branch Manager
Gulf Bank Nigeria Plc.,
44, Broad Street,
Lagos, Nigeria
Attn: Dear Friend,
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S.DOLLARS
I am MR. KELVIN STEVE the Branch Manager of Gulf Bank Of Nigeria Plc, the
banker to the late head of state of Nigeria who died on June 8th 1998 under
mysterious circumstance.
I got your contact through commercial department of your country's embassy
in my search for a reliable and trustworthily person to handle this
top-secret transaction. You must therefore keep this transaction a VERY TOP
SECRET.
THE SOURCE OF THE FUND
The late dictator General Sanni Abacha deposited the sum of $25.3 million
U.S. Dollars in his private account means which I am the Branch Manager, but
with serious conferment in me that I would never reveal this to anybody
apart from his wife Mrs. Maryam Abacha, which he go as an over invoice from
the Ajaokuta Steel Mill the proposal largest steel Mill in African
continent.
The contract was awarded to a Russian firm, but after his mysterious death,
the new military government that emerged then set-up a commission of
enquiries into all contacts awarded by the late dictator, but could not
complete their mission due to the emergence of a democratic government
headed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the president of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, who vowed to continue with the predecessor commitment by setting
up commission of enquiries to track down the account of the late dictator
both in Nigeria and overseas, through different ways by media and other
means. In this cause I have declared $800 million United states Dollars to
the Federal Government of Nigeria as the family have no knowledge of the
total amount deposited in my bank. While I have transferred the balance of
$25.3 million U.S. Dollars to a subsidiary of Gulf Bank Plc. With the
knowledge of three senior officers of the bank. But we cannot lay claims to
this found due to our position in the bank.
We therefore solicit your assistance in transferring this amount to your
private or company account, as this transaction is risk free with our
involvement.
We thereby agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum while 75%
would be shared among us, the officials. The said amount was transferred to
SECURITY VAULT & FINANCE COMPANY IN ABROAD through diplomatic immunities
granted to banks in Nigeria and coded for security reasons to avoid a
re-occurrence of a past incident in London in which 1.6 Billion Pounds
Sterling belonging to the late dictator was siezed.
If you have any positive response toward my proposal, please contact me
without delay on the above e-mail address.
I look forward to your earliest response.
MR. KELVIN STEVE
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