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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: "kefi mohammed" <zedmail_2000@msn.com>
Reply-To: kefimohammed@rediffmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:44:57 +0000
Subject: CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION
FROM THE DESK OF ENGR KEFI MOHAMMED
CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
POWER HOLDINGS COMPANY OF NIGERIA PLC (PHCN)
DIRECT TEL: + 234-1-4349422
www.nepanigeria.org
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$17M
Sir,
Although, I have not prior to this letter had any
formal contact or communication with you, however,
your contact was personally sourced by me in my quest
for a reliable company, Investor, Businessman, or
partner to assist
with an urgent business deal requiring utmost trust
and confidentiality. I know my medium of contact might
make you apprehensive owing to the spate of internet
scams going round. But I want to assure you that this
is not one of such.
I am Engr Kefi Mohammed, Chairman, Contract Award and
Implementation Committee in the Power Holdings Company
of Nigeria Plc (PHCN), formally, National Electric
Power Authority (NEPA). My duty includes ,awards of
contracts, vetting same and making payments on behalf
of my Company (PHCN)
alongside the Chief Accountants and Directors of
Audit.
SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed
to privately invest extensively in your country. I am
intending to resign from Government
services to private business with some other officials
of my Corporation involved in this deal as partners. I
have specifically been mandated to
arrange with you for terms of trade and possible
transfer of the funds needed for the investment into
your company’s or personal account.
SOURCE OF FUND: This fund was incurred from an over
invoiced contract awarded to an American firm in the
year, 2004 for the supply of Power Transformers
and High Tension Cables for Rural Electrification
Projects in the Niger Delta Communities of Nigeria.
The original value of this contract was purposely
over estimated by us the Tenders Board Committee to
the tune of US$17M (Seventeen million, US Dollars
only). Now that the Original firm that
executed the contract has received its payment fully,
we now want to transfer the over invoiced sum to your
company’s or Personal account and privately
invest in any profitable form of business. The US$17M
has since been approved for payment/remittance among
other payments that have been made. This money
is now floating in the Country’s Apex Bank, as a
redundant fund waiting to be claimed. Because of our
Federal Government's new law on Civil Service, Civil
Servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct bureau
from owning or operating foreign bank accounts, hence,
I solicit your help to remit this fund into your
company’s or private account pending when we come over
for the sharing.
To enable us process and remit this fund into your
bank account successfully within 10 banking days from
the day of your response, we need the following
information from you by a return e-mail:
(1). BENEFICIARY NAME (2). YOUR BANK PARTICULARS
INCLUDING YOUR BANK NAME, ADDRESS, ACCOUNT NUMBER AND
SWIFT, TEL/FAX AND TELEX NUMBERS (3). YOUR PRIVATE AND
CONFIDENTIAL TEL/FAX NUMBERS AND ADDRESS.
Note that as soon as we receive this information, they
will be used to prepare Documents to facilitate the
final processing and subsequent remittance of the fund
to your nominated Bank account. With this modality, it
makes it possible for you to act as a sub-contractor
to the original firm that executed the Contract
This transaction is 100% risk-free having done all the
underground works locally for the smooth transfer of
the fund into your bank account within the shortest
period. I advise that you keep this business a top
secret and rest all correspondences to E-mail and
phone only because I am occupying a
sensitive position in the government circle and also
this is once in a life time opportunity.
Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on
my instructions and that our own share of the money
will be safe. We have jointly agreed to
reward you with 20% of the total sum for your honest
assistance and co-operation while 70% will be for my
colleagues and me. And the remaining 10% will be
mapped out for settling all expenses (local and
foreign) incurred in the course of this transaction
Indicate your interest urgently by e-mail:
kefimohammed@rediffmail.com
Best Regards
Engr. Kefi Mohammed
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