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Fraud email example:

From: MINISTRY OF SOLID MINERALS AND ENERGY R <franklyne1956@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:21:04 -0600
Subject: ATTN: GOOD FRIEND(REPLY ASAP)

This proposal,is specifically meant for you.Please if you are not interested,just
kindly notify me via email and if you are interested,also notify me,via email,to
enable me give you further details.Thanks.


ATTN: GOOD FRIEND(REPLY ASAP)
25th march,2006
TENDERS COMMITTEE
MINISTRY OF SOLID MINERALS AND ENERGY RESOURCES,
SENATE HOUSE, ABUJA-NIGERIA
Dear Friend/Partner,
I am Dr Franklyne Mayeba a native of the Niger Delta Area of Nigeria

and Director of Project Implementation,Nigerian Ministry of Solid

Minerals & Energy Resources.
I am making this contact with you based on the committee's need for an

individual/company who is willing to assist us with a solution to a

money transfer. First and foremost,I apologize using this medium to

reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due

to confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.
In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you, as a respected and

honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity, trust and

confidentiality.
I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the

execution of the deal described hereunder for the benefit of all

parties and hope you will keep it as a top secret because of the nature

of this transaction.
Within the Ministry of Solid Minerals and Energy Resources where I work

as Director of Project Implementation and with the cooperation of four
other top officials,we have in our possession as overdue payment bills

totaling Sixteen Million,Two Hundred and fifty Thousand United States

Dollars , which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and

cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on

our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account
to receive such funds.
Moreso, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the Nigeria Civil

Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account

hence your importance in the whole transaction.
This amount represents the balance of the total contract value executed

on behalf of my Department by a foreign contracting firm, which we the

officials over-invoiced deliberately.
Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original

contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we

have in principles gotten approval to remit by Key tested Telegraphic

Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing

in an application through the Ministry of Justice here in Abuja-Africa

for the transfer of rights and privileges of the former contractor to

you.
I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you

be willing to assist us in the transaction, your share of the sum will

be negotiated and funds for miscellaneous expenses shall be set aside.
The business itself is safe, on your part provided you treat it with

utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Also
your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful

execution of this transaction.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you will not

disappoint me. Endeavour to contact me immediately through my personal

e-mail address
including your confidential telephone number to enable me contact you

for further details or to confirm whether or not you are interested in

this deal.
If you are not interested , it will enable me scout for another foreign

partner to carry out this deal. I want to assure you that my partners

and myself are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible

provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that

our share will be secured and please, remember to treat this matter

very confidential , because we will not comprehend with any form of

exposure
as we are still in active Government Service.
Once again, remember that time is of great essence in this transaction.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Franklyne Mayeba(Ph.D)


N/B:SEND IN YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS:

franklyne1956@yahoo.co.uk


This proposal,is specifically meant for you.Please if you are not

interested,just kindly notify me via email and if you are

interested,also notify me,via email,to enable me give you further

details.Thanks.







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