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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: adams_award@nekto.com
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 00:58:58 +0100
Subject: Acknowledgement
Phone: +234-802-554-9993
Email: ada_michaels@nekto.com
Hello My Friend,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the National Petroleum Corporation
here in Nigerian, for security reasons, I may not wish to disclose how I got your
email address for now.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business
]proposal, we want you to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight million, six
hundred thousand united state bills(us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted
from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my
ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries. The
contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost
of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of us28.6m as the over invoiced
amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for our own use. Please note that
the law forbids civil servants to operate or own foreign accounts hence this contact,
we have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for
us 10 for tax as may be required by your government.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk hence the
business was carefully planned before it was successfully executed and we the
officials involved in the deal have put many years in service to our ministry.
We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not until the
presidential announcement last week, that all foreign contractors owed be paid
forthwith, this will enable the presidency reconcile our debt ratio with the outside
world and to most of us, this is a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon
indication of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information
form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Be informed also that the above mentioned formV when properly completed by you
and return
via email, will enable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned
government quarters/ministries within 1-2 banking days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account,
my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share
and possibly invest part of this money in your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. I shall
furnish you with some details about myself. Your prompt reply will be highly
appreciated.
Best regards.
Adams I.S.A
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