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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: "Rev John Aboh" <j_o_a101@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: rev_john_aboh@hotpop.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 16:36:28 +0000
Subject: Please reply soon
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the oil ministry here
in Nigeria, 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 ($28.6M) 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
$28.6M 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, Please furnish me with the following
informations:
Name and address (to be used as the Beneficiary)
Direct Telephone and fax numbers (to contact you)
Your age and what you do for a living
Note that the following informations will enable us seek / secure approval
of the fund from the concerned Government quarters / ministries within 3-4
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.
Rev. John Aboh
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