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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: "MARK BILL" <markbill01@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:16:11 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(Department of Petroleum Resources)
Engineer Mark Bill
Attn:Partner,
REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP RE: TRANSFER OF
US$25.5 MILLION AMERICAN DOLLARS INTO ACCOUNT
Although this proposal might come to you as a surprise since it is coming
from someone you do not know or ever seen before, but after due deliberation
with my colleagues, I decided to forward this business proposal to you.
We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the sum of twenty
five million, five hundred thousand united states dollars.
(us$25.5million)into his/her account.
This fund resulted from an over invoiced bill from a contract awarded by us
for the turn-around maintenance (T.A.M) carried out on the four refineries
in Nigeria during the last military regime of General Abdulsalami Abubakar.
We awarded this contract under the budget allocation to my parastatal,the
bill was approved for payment and the contract has been executed and the
original contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. We are left
with the balance of (us$25.5 million dollars as the over invoiced
amount,which we have deliberately over-estimated for our own use, but under
our protocol division, civil servants are forbidden to operate or own
foreign account. This is why I am contacting you for assistance. We have
agreed to share the money as follows.
(i) 30% for you the account owner.
(ii) 60% for us (the officials)
(iii) 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local/foreign
expenses.
As you may want to know and make you less curious, I am the executive
chairman of the contract award committee of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (Department of Petroleum Resources) this transaction is very
much free from all sort of risk because this business was carefully planned
before it was successfully executed and we the officials involved in this
deal have put in many years of meritorious service to our parastatal.
We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and for
most of us this is a lifetime opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
To get this fund into your account, we have to present an international
business outfit and consequent upon indication of your interest to fully
assist us in this transaction, you are advised to furnish us with the
following:
(i) the bank in which you would want the us$25.5 million to be paid into.
(ii) beneficiary of the account.
(iii) your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication
This information will enable us seek approval of the fund from the concerned
quarters within 5-7 banking days and the Nigerian National Petroluem(S.I.C)
Corporation (Department of Petroleum Resources) payment information data
will be faxed immediately to you for completion.
One of my colleagues and I involved in this deal will come to your country
to arrrange for our share upon confirmation from you that the money has hit
your nominated bank account. All these will only take us about 14working
days to transfer this fund into your account from the day we receive the
requirements.
Your line of business in this transaction does not matter. Honesty and your
ability to keep it secret and keep our own share safe when the money hits
your account is what matters. It is important that we perfectly understand
and co-operate with one another to ensure that this business is sucessfully
concluded.
Best regards
Engineer Mark Bill
Executive Chairman, Contract Award Committee
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
(Department of Petroleum Resources).
Nb..Get back to me via my private email contact: markbill@k.ro
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