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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: "james biko" <jbikko@msn.com>
Reply-To: jbikko@eseenet.com
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:20:51 +0000
Subject: My offer to you
Dear Sir,
I am Dr.James Biko, the chairman of contract award and review
committee set up by the federal government of Nigeria under the
new civilian dispensation to award new contracts and review
existing ones. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable
and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction,
which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account.There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of
multi-nationals in the oil industry infavor of N.N.P.C.
The original values of these contracts were deliberately over
invoiced to the sumof US$12,320,000.00 (Twelve Million Three
Hundred and Twenty Thousand United States Dollars). This amount
has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred being
that the companies that actually executed these contracts have
been fully Paid and the projects officially
commissioned.Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to
transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent
disbursement, since we as civil servants are prohibited by the code
of conduct bureau (civil service law) from operating and/or
opening foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is
enormous, in return, we have agreed to offer you 20% of the
transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for incidental
expenses (internal and external) between both parties in the
course of the transaction you will be mandated to remit the
balance to other accounts in due course.Modalities have been
worked out at the highest levelof the Ministry of Finance and the
Central Bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the funds
within 7 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above
stated terms.Our assurance is that your role is risk free.
To accord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual
security of the funds the whole approval procedures will officially
and legally processed with your name or the name of any company
you may nominate as the bonefide beneficiary.Once more I want
you to understand that having put in over twenty-five years in the
civil service of my country, I am averse to having my image and
career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost
secrecy and urgency it deserves.
Please you should signify your intention to assist by sending me a
reply through jbikko@eseenet.com to state your position on this
transaction, if favorable we will take further steps to brief you the
full details of this viable transaction.I want to assure you that this
business proposal is100% risk free as we have done our
homework properly.I quite believe that you will protect our interest
by taking this deal strictly confidential, as we are still in
government service, which we intend to retire from in full honor.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us
include this transfer in the next batch which would constitute this
quarter payments for the 2005 financial year.
Thank you and God bless.
Dr.James Biko.
NB.You are the only person I have contacted for now. Please let me
know your capabilities as regards my proposal, as I do not intend
to contact any other person, until I am convinced that you are not
capable to assist me.
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