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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: "Sir Mark Thatcher" <smjb6@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mark_thatcher_uk@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:30:33 -0500
Subject: Can you handle this?
Good Day,
Can you handle this?
My name is Sir Mark Thatcher,Son of Baroness Mageret Thatcher,former prime
minister of Great Britain.I lived and worked in Durban as a defence
contractor to many african countries for 20 years.It is my pleasure to
contact you for a business venture which I intend to establish in your
country. Though I have not met with you before but considering the recent
political problems i am having,I have been accused of planning a coup to
topple the government of Equitorial Guinea and placed under house arrest
without any contact with my associates or even my Mother and to make matters
worse my mother does not want to have anything to do with me.
I have decided to do these deal with you because i believe one has to risk
confiding in unknown people to succeed sometimes in life.
There is this huge amount of Two Hundred and forty million U.S
dollars($240,000,000.00) which was a due contract sum i was paid by the
Nigerian government for the supply of 120 f9 jet fighters for there
airforce.I succesfully executed the contract and my contract sum has been
paid into my domiciliary account with one of the prime banks in
Nigeria,however these contract payment concided with my house arrest and i
have not been able to redeposit the funds into any of my foreign accounts
but i do not wish to do that any longer so as not to risk losing the funds
to the South African government in case of any eventuality,I also do not
want any of my business associates or family members to have any link to
these funds so as not to bring about tracing of the funds.
I have decided to invest these money in your country for security and
political reasons. l want you to help me retrieve this money from the bank
and transfer it into your personal bank account in your country for
investment purposes.
I will send you through my attorney in Nigeria all the documents you will
require to retrieve these money from the bank,they include:
1.The contract award certificate.
2.The Job Completion Certificate
3.The contract payment approval letter
4.The payment/transfer slip for the transfer of the contract sum into my
domiciliary account in the
Nigerian Bank.
Once my attorney has sent you these confidential documents You will be able
to contact the bank as my business partner in the execution of the contract
and they will remit the funds into your bank account.
If you can be of any assistance to me l will be pleased to offer to you 30%
Of the total fund, and l mapped out 5% for you to cover any expenses you may
incur to see that my contract sum is transfered into your private bank
account .
Please do keep these transaction strictly confidential because of my
security situation and once the money is transfered to you ,hold my part in
trust pending when i get released,i will travel over to your country for
disbursement of the funds.
Due to my house arrest i cannot be able to speak with you but do contact my
attorney in Nigeria,Barrister John Brooks with email: jb_lawfirm@yahoo.co.uk
and telephone: +234-805-793-2197.
Also send me for record purposes your full name,address ,tel and fax number.
I await for your kind consideration to my plight.
Yours faithfully,
Sir Mark Thatcher.
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