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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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From: "Gerhard Famous" <layd_drc@sohu.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: layd@30gigs.com
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:56:33 -0800
Subject: GOOD NEWS !!!
Attention
The President/CEO
Dear Friend,
Confidential Business Proposal
Happy New Year and Good season that will bring us success. Having consulted with my colleagues and based on the information gathered from the Internet about you, I have the privilege to request for your assistance to transfer the sum of 21,500,000.00 (Twenty one million, five hundred thousand United States dollars) into your accounts.
The above sum resulted from an over-invoiced contract by past government nor existed contract claim to have executed with nor existed contractor commissioned to be paid by the previous government official for about some years ago by a foreign contractor.
This action was however intentional and since then the fund approval has been in a suspense since the death of the formal head of states General Sanni Abacha. We are now ready to transfer the fund overseas with this opportunity as a member of Debt reconciliation Committee to inspect all concerned debt by Federal Republic of Nigeria to all foreign contractors.In this regards I solicit your partnership to front you as a foreign contractor and the executor of the contract whose contract entitlement is long due to be paid.
This is where you come in. It is important to inform you that as civil servants, we are forbidden to operate a foreign account; that is why we require your assistance. The total sum will be shared as follows: 70% for us, 20% for you and 10% for local and international expenses incident to the transfer.
The transfer is risk free on both sides. I am member debt reconciliation committee (DRC) the newly commissioned panel to review all contract awarded to foreigner (as a result I discover the apportioned contract was not existing one). Please If you find this proposal acceptable, we shall require the following documents:
(a) Your banker's name, company name that you are to front as the executed company (b) Your private telephone and fax numbers -- for confidentiality and easy communication. (c) Your letter-headed paper of your company if you have good company.
I shall communicate to you more details on the modalities to get this done, along with a breakdown explaining, comprehensively what we require of you.
The business will take us (14) working days to accomplish. From the date of the recommendation from (DRC)
Please note that mails sent to this e-mail box will not be responded to, for urgent response and attention, please write to ( layd@30gigs.com )
Best Regards
Gerhard Famous
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