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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: "PETROLEUM CORPORATION" <lukwanu@msn.com>
Reply-To: lukwanubello@hotmail.ro
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:05:36 +0000
Subject: From Dr Lukwanu
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
# 7 KOFO ABAYOMI STREET, VICTORIA ISLAND
LAGOS - NIGERIA.
Dear Friend,
Request for a confidential business
relationship:
My name is Lukwanu Bello; I represent a team of highly placed officials with
the Nigeria national petroleum corporation (N.N.P.C) as well as the federal
government contract review committee (C.R.C), who are interested in
commencing immediate business relationship with you. We hereby strongly
solicit your assistance in transferring (Forex) funds which totals
us$10,500,000.00 (ten million, five hundred thousand United States dollars
only) into a reliable personal or company account overseas which you have
absolute control over.
These funds are presently trapped in the Nigeria national petroleum
corporation (N.N.P.C) account with central bank of Nigeria (C.B.N). These
are as a result of grossly over – invoiced contracts which were executed for
the N.N.P.C during the last administration in Nigeria and are presently
under verification.
To this effect, the present administration in Nigeria set up a contract
review committee to identify, verify, scrutinize, approve and recommend for
payment all valid contracts that have been fully executed in the course of
our assessment, we have identified a lot of misappropriated and inflated
funds which are presently floating in the suspense account of the central
bank of Nigeria ready for payment. The companies, which executed the
contracts, have been duly paid. It is the over inflated sum of
us$10,500,000.00 that we now intend to transfer into a foreign account
urgently.
I have been delegated as matter of capability by my colleagues to secure the
cooperation of an overseas partner into whose account this over invoiced sum
could be transferred for onward disbursement amongst us. Please confirm your
willingness to assist us by sending your direct telephone and fax number to
me for further information. We will share the fund in a ratio which will be
satisfactory to all. However, we propose 70% for us (the officials), 30% for
the account owner (you). Please note that this transaction is 100% risk free
and safe. So I will like you to get back to me urgently so that I will start
processing the needed documents because we intend to accomplish this
transfer within (5)five working days.
Please treat with the strictest confidentiality and utmost urgency.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Lukwanu Bello.
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