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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: "Mr CELESTINE UBADI" <toy_@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: celestlne_ubadl01@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:08:22 +0100
Subject: Mr CELESTINE UBADI
Attention: President/Director,
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the Gold and
Natural
resources ministry here in South Africa, for security reasons, I may
not
wish to disclose the most important thing for now until I hear from
you.
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,
because
we don?t need anything will delay this money when it arrive in your
bank
account.
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.
Note that the following information: your private phone number and
address willenable 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.
Mr CELESTINE UBADI
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