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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: "Eke John" <ekejohn@88.am>
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:49:05 -0900
Subject: From: Dr.Eke John

From: Dr.Eke John
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Plot 1684, Sanusi fafunwa Street,
Victoria Island,
P. M. B. 15974, Marina, Lagos.
Nigeria.
Telephone: 234-802-5072565.

ATTN: President/Ceo.

REQUEST FOR CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

First of all, I sincerely pray and hope that this proposal meets you in good
condition.
Through business inquiries from my local chambers of commerce and industry,
you were revealed as being quite astute in private enterpreneurship. Records
show your ability to handle a financial transaction of considerable amount,
which has formed the bedrock of my present business preposition for a
partnership with you. In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as
a respected executive to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and
confidentiality.

I am a member of the Federal Government Contract Review Committee vested
with the responsibility to appraise contract claims and makes recommendation
to the Government. In 1997, a contract was awarded by the now defunct
Military Regime to a foreign firm for the Construction of Heavy Duty
Drilling Pipelines Network for the Port Harcourt and Warri Refineries and
Petro-Companies, which are subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation.This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$31,500,000.00
(Thirty one, Five Hundred Thousand USD). This was done deliberately by the
then contract arbitrators with the intention of diverting the over-invoiced
amount but unfortunately that Government was overtaken by another military
coup.

In the course of our assignment we discovered that this amount is deposited
in an Escrow account with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),
our finding, reveal that the original contractor has been fully paid, it is
this over-invoiced sum we now intend to transfer into an offshore account
you will be providing us. It is pertinent to state here that my country has
no reward for hard labour and honesty and the Government has no social or
welfare system for the citizenry nor has the Government establish any
retirement benefit for retiring civil servants.

Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this junction is enormous, we
have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 25% of the transferred sum while
10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses incurred during the course of
the transaction. It is our intention therefore, having your understanding
and cooperation to invest our 65% share in real estates and properties
pending our retirement when we will be able to repatriate the fund for local
investment. I would require from you by returning fax and phone confirmation
as a matter of urgency the following:

1. Beneficiary/ Account Name and or Company Name,
Address office and home phone and fax #.
2. Name, Address, Phone and Fax # of your Bank.
3. Account # of Beneficiary, Routing, Swift or
Telex # of your Bank.

The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to your
account. It does not matter whether your company does contract projects of
the kind described here . The assumption is that your company won the major
contract bid and subcontracted it out to other companies. More often than
not, big trading companies and firms of unrelated fields win major contracts
and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution.We have strong and
reliable connections and contracts at the Apex Bank (Central Bank of
Nigeria) and the Federal Ministry of Finance and I assure you that the fund
will be released and transferred if we get your co-operation to assist us in
this deal. As soon as the transfer is concluded we shall, through our
contract, withdraw all documents used from all the relevant Government
Ministries and parastatal for 100% security.

We are civil servants and we will not want to miss this opportunity. We want
this money to be transferred to the overseas. Account for us to safe our
life after retirement and those of our children.Please contact me without
delay on my E-mail, whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you
are not, it will enable me to search for another foreign partner that will
assist us.Again we look forward to doing business with you and solicit for
your utmost confidentiality in this matter.

Yours faithfully,

Dr.Eke John





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