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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: "prest debiri" <pdebiri101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: pdebiri101@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:37:47 -0800
Subject: AFTER DUE CONSIDERATION!!!
Dear Friend,
I am Engr. Prest Debiri a staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC) and i am the director of Currency Conversion of her Department. A few
weeks ago a foreign company Yukos Oil in Russia applied for and obtained
crude oil allocation and as part of the statute of the NNDC, all such
companies must pass a certain text as well as pay compensation to the
communities within the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria where the Oil Rigs are
located as a means of assisting toward the amelioration of the impoverished
nature of her citizen under the Ecological Law of Nigeria known as the "
Ogoni Bill of Right ".
However, due to the enormity of the amount due as the compensation fee for
which the Yukos Oil cannot afford, an agreement was reached between my
office and the Yukos Oil Russia officials to pay a certain percentage of the
compensation fee $ 8,000,000.00 out of the total amount of $ 18,000,000.00
on the condition that I will be given a total of $3,000,000.00 for my
assistance which has been sealed.
My decision to contact you therefore was borne out of fact that recent
events within the polity leadings to the arraignment in court of top
legislators and the sacking of some ministers for bribery, I cannot keep
this money here as such I have arranged with a diplomatic agent to courier
it into Europe under a diplomatic baggage where you are then to collect this
money on my behalf.
For your effort, you shall get 20% of the total amount while the remaining
80% belongs to me. Since I will not be able to repatriate this money back to
Nigeria, I have decided to use it to purchase some allied and agro equipment
from your country which will then be shipped back to Nigeria. From all
indications then, you shall enjoy most of the benefits.
The diplomats shall be departing for Europe very soon and I need your
consent to enable me consummate the transaction. Should you therefore
consent to this proposal, kindly let me have your full contact details,
which will be passed on to diplomatic agency so that as soon as he arrives
Europe, he will contact you.
Once again, I apologize for any inconveniences this might cause you while
looking forward to a favorable response. Please reply through my private
email address: pdebiri101@yahoo.com
Best regards,
Engr. Prest Debiri
NB: PLEASE SEND YOUR RESPONSE TO : pdebiri101@yahoo.com
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