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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: "Dr Hassan Yusuf" <dr_hassany@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 04:50:04 -0900
Subject: VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL .
Dear Friend,
It becomes necessary that I have to communicate you through this means of
contact, as a result of the URGENCY and IMPORTANCE attached to this matter.
I got your contact through a classified email address posted on the
internet, and I must apologize for any embarrassment this request may cause
you.
I am DR. HASSAN YUSUF, the Assistant Chairman in charge of the newly
constituted FOREIGN CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL (FCRP). This PANEL was set up by
the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA, to REVIEW all payments made to FOREIGN
CONTRACTORS that executed GOVERNMENT PROJECTS in Nigeria, starting from the
period of last MILITARY ADMINISTRATION till the present DEMOCRATIC
GOVERNMENT in Nigeria.
During our official operations on FOREIGN CONTRACT REVIEW, we discovered the
sum of US$27,800,000.00 (Twenty Seven Million, Eight Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars) which resulted from OVER-INVOICED CONTRACT AMOUNT, that were
awarded to some FOREIGN CONTRACTORS, during the last MILITARY ADMINISTRATION
in Nigeria in 1992.
The original FOREIGN CONTRACTORS who executed these CONTRACTS have been duly
paid their ACTUAL CONTRACT AMOUNT, while the OVER-INVOICED AMOUNT OF
(US$27,800,000.00) is still floating in an ESCROW ACCOUNT of the CENTRAL
BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) ready for payment to any FOREIGN CONTRACTOR who may
come forward to claim this fund.
With of our POSTIONS / INFLUENCE in office (AS MEMBERS OF THE FOREIGN
CONTRACT REVIEW PANEL), I have completed adequate arrangements with my
colleagues in office on how this OVER-INVOICED SUM OF (US$27,800,000.00)
could be paid to any FOREIGNER who may be willing to assist us by providing
us with a FOREIGN BANK ACCOUNT, where this fund will be transferred.
As Civil Servant, there are some LAWS from the Federal Government of
Nigeria which DOES NOT permit us to operate a (FOREIGN ACCOUNT), and also
RESTRICTS us from claiming this fund.
As a result of the above situation, I hereby seek your assistance in this
transaction by providing us with a FOREIGN ACCOUNT where this OVER-INVOICED
SUM OF (US$27,800,000.00) could successfully be transferred. We shall
transfer this fund to your account, by legally changing the BENEFICIARY of
this fund to your name (AS A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR).
You will receive (25%) of this fund (US$27,800,000.00) as your share for
assisting us in this transaction, while the remaining (75%) shall be shared
between me and my colleagues in office at the successful end of the
transaction. I shall arrange to meet with you in your country as soon as
this transaction is completed, to enable me collect the (75%) of this fund
on behalf of my colleagues.
Should you be willing to cooperate with us in this transaction, you are
required to forward the following information to me URGENTLY:
(1) YOUR FULL NAME
(2) YOUR OCCUPATION
(3) YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS
(4) YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER
PLEASE NOTE: With our POSITIONS in office, we shall use the above
information to prepare a PAYMENT FILE in your name, which will LEGALLY
qualify you to receive this PAYMENT OF (US$27,800,000.00) in your account
(AS A FOREIGN CONTRACTOR).
Your PAYMENT FILE will be forwarded to the CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN),
for the TRANSFER of this fund to your account as the ORIGINAL BENEFICIARY.
We do assure you that this transaction is 100% RISK FREE. There is NO RISK
of any kind involved in this transaction, and you should NOT exercise any
fear over this arrangement.
We shall provide you with our IDENTITIES as regards to our respective
positions in offices as soon as soon as you have agreed to cooperate with us
in this transaction.
For your information, we have put in many years of MERITORIOUS SERVICES to
our country, and for this reason we would NOT want our REPUTATIONS to be
DESTROIED in this transaction. To this effect, we urge you to kindly handle
this transaction with STRICT CONFIDENTIALITY. We do also request your
SINCERITY / TRANSPARENT HONESTY in this transaction, believing that you will
NOT betray us at the successful end.
Kindly forward your UERGENT reply to this mail, together with the requested
information as listed above to my private email address:
dr_hassany@yahoo.com
Your URGENT reply is highly expected, to enable us commence this transaction
without any delay.
Thanks and Regards,
DR. HASSAN YUSUF.
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