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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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From: "Adams Idioma" <engradams@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 08:23:24 +0100
Subject: Thanks for your reply
Phone: 234-80-27640445
Email: adamichaels@myway.com
I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee of the Oil Ministry here
in Nigeria, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your
email address for now.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this
business proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight
million, six hundred thousand united state bills (us28.6m) into your
account. This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us
under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed, commissioned
and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract. Now, we are
left with the balance of us28.6m as the over invoiced amount, which we have
deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that the law
forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this
contact, we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30
for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be required by your government.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence
the business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and
we the officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to our
ministry. We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long
not until the presidential announcement last week, that all foreign
contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable the presidency
reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most of us, this is a
lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your interest
to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information form will be
sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) bankers name and address, b) account
number and account name and c) your private phone number and email address
will enable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned
government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account,
my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share
and possibly invest part of this money in your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I shall
furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will be highly
appreciated.
Best regards.
Engr.St.michael Adams
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