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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: "IGHADO HENRY" <ighado_henry@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:02:20 +0000
Subject: FROM: TAIWO T. KAYODE.
Hello,
It is my heart desire that you take your time to read this mail carefully.
My name is chief Taiwo T. Kayode. I am a director in the Nigerian Railway
Corporation (NRC). The former chairman of the corporation, Alhaji Muhammed
Waziri was among the 111 passengers and six crew that died in the ill-fated
Boeing 737 aircraft which crashed on the October 22, 2005 shortly after
takeoff in Lagos to Abuja. Alhaji Waziri was to travel to London few days
from Abuja for a special assignment on our behalf.
WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE FAILED LONDON TRIP?
The trip was on the invitation of some one he arranged in respect of
assisting us receive the sum US$19.2M (Nineteen Million, Two Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) in his bank account. The trip was to
finalize with him the terms of the partnership via;
a). His compensation as the receiver,
b). When our group would meet the receiver in London in order to share the
US$19.2M,
c). How to invest our (board members) share of the US$19.2M,
HOW DID WE GET THE US$19.2 MILLION?
In solving the perennial transport problem in Nigeria, the present federal
government has vowed to put Nigerian railway transport up and running before
the end of the regime's second term in office. In order to meet this target,
contracts for the construction and refurbishing of the railway system and
the procument of new trains and spare parts were awarded to British and
Chiness firms respectively. It is from these contracts that we secured
US$19.2 Million through contract over invoicing.
WHY DO I CONTACT YOU?
Now that Alhaji Waziri is dead without the Board members of NRC knowing his
London contact person, Board members directed me to quickly scout for a
worthy person or company that will help us receive the US$19.2 Million. So I
am humbly requesting you to help us receive the US$19.2 Million. Please if
you wish to do this business with us, you have to note the following:
i. It is our (the board members only) civic resposibility to legally secure
the vital approvals for the US$19.2 Million from the relevant ministries and
parastatals.
ii. As a receiver, we will compensate you with the sum of US$4.2M (Four
Million, Two Hundred Thousand United States Dollars.
iii. As a receiver, I need your full name/company's name.
iv. As a receiver, I need your telephone and fax numbers.
I am expecting your response as soon as possible, while advising you to send
your reply to (ttkayode@netscape.net).
Yours sincerely,
Taiwo T. Kayode.
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