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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: "Hasan Umah" <hasanumah@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hasanumah_ahl@myway.com
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 13:34:41 +0000
Subject: Strictly confidential for you....get back to me...Thanks
Strictly confidential
Dear Friend,
I am Mr.Hasan Umah a director in the Federal Ministry of Budget of federal
republic of Nigeria. Four (4) months ago, I led a 3 man audit panel to
balance the books of the apex bank (central bank of Nigeria).
In the course of our duties, we discovered that the sum of $48.6 million
(forty eight million, six hundred thousand USA dollars) has been lying in a
suspense account with the apex bank since 1998 without beneficiary(ies) our
further investigation reveals that this sum accumulated as a result of
over-invoiced executed contracts influenced by past retired military
government personnel and was unclaimed due to transformation of new
democratic government.
After careful deliberations, we (my colleagues and I) unanimously agreed to
transfer this sum of $48.6 million into a foreign account for investment
purposes, hence we are seeking your assistance and co-operation to achieve
this objective. We have put all modalities in place to apply for the claim
of this fund with your name or your company's as contract payment having
completed a contract we purportedly awarded to you.
However, we have successfully transferred this fund through diplomatic seal
to our off-shore payment bureau in overseas on the grounds that it was meant
for the payment of a foreign contractor. We therefore, solicit that you
stand as the owner and proceed claim/collection of the entire fund on our
behalf from the off-shore payment office.
Note that we will arrange all the papers needed and the approval for the
release of this fund with documented evidence of the contract executed to
enable swift collection of this said fund by you without any hitch.
Therefore, there is no risk whatsoever either now or in future.
You would be assisted physically by a protocol officer during you
collection ceremony and you will be guided to open an account were the
money would be lodged after collection then you can re-transfer to your
preferred designated account but were huge tax shall not be levied. You
will get 25% of the entire sum, 70% for us, while 5% is set aside for
reimbursement of expenses we may incur in actualising this transaction. It
is important to state that all parties would be protected by a silent but
strong agreement which greatest tenet would be strictly confidential as we
are civil servants still in active service.
If you are interested, contact me first through my bellow email address by
sending your phone, fax and mobile numbers for verbal discussion. Seven (7)
working days is enough to conclude this transaction.
I look forward to your prompt reply.
Best regard
Hasan Umah
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