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  • drjoif01@yahoo.co.uk (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: dr john ifeh <drjoif01@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <drjoif01@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 13:36:37 -0400
Subject: YOUR URGENT RESPONSE IS NEEDED.



Hello Dear,

INVESTMENT & CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
It is my warmest pleasure writing you this confidentialbusiness offer irrespective of the fact that we have notmet or done anything that will re-impose absoluteconfidence but nevertheless. I am very determined tocommunicate you with much beleive that you will give myproposal a consideration. As earlier stated I am Dr. JohnIfeh , a Financial Director working with Inec. My Agencyis in charge of conducting elections in my country Nigeriaand by the virtue of my unique position in office as theChief Financial Director. I was elevated by the commissionto become the chairman of foreign contract tender boardcommittee whose responsibility is to award and superviseforeign contract to ensure it is executed promptly.Consequently, I the chairman of the tender board committeein collaboration with two other top committee membersover-invoiced certain contract for the supply of electoralequipments needed for the forth-coming elections in April2007. The initial cost of the contract was pegged at US$40million, base on the feasibility that was done but whilesubmitting my report to the office of the presidency forfinal approval, we deliberately inflated the cost to anexcess amount of US$ 30 million making the cost to be US$70 million.

Right now, the gist of contacting you is that we are havingdifficulties to claim the extra fund which is US$30milliomdue to certain laws enacted by the government guiding civilservice code of conduct Bureau which prohibits top civilservants working under Government establishment fromoperating offshore or foreign Account and this situationhas kept us in a fix to openly come forward to claim theoutstanding balance mentioned,hence after series of privatemeetings we decided to make contact in order to get areliable foreign partner whom we will forward his or hercredentials to claim the fund based on mutual trust andagreement.

In a nutshell, we need your assistance and support toclaim this fund so that once the funds is claimed, we willbe using it for investment at the later time convenient forus, we will come over to your country after the funds musthave been transferred to meet you and collect our ownpercentage while you will keep the rest as yours. For yoursupport and total dedication to realize the objectives ofthis operation, you shall be entitled to 20% of the sumtotal while 80% of the fund belongs to the three officialsinvolved in the deal.

Note, you are vividly assured that you will not besubjected to any kind of risk for your support andinvolvement in this venture because we havepiloted a goodstrategy to ensure the operations goes smoothly of which wehave targeted two weeks duration to accomplished our Aimand should you find interest in this confidentialtransaction please let me have your response as quickly aspossible and indicate your phone number to call you for abrief discussion.

Kindly treat this matter Absolutely confidential becausethe officials involved are still in service and some of usintend to resign our appointment immediately thetransaction is finalized. I look forward to hearingpositively from you while further details will be given assoon as I get your response.

Please reply me with this my alternative email address{drjoif01@yahoo.co.uk}for security reasons.
Best Regards,Dr. John Ifeh.

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