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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: ibe john <johnibe_700@yahoo.com.hk>
Reply-To: johnibe4@uymail.com
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:27:11 +0800 (CST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION/ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER
FROM THE DESK OF CHIEF JOHN IBE
NNPC "CONTRACT TENDER COMMITTEE AND
NNPC PIPELINES MAINTENANCE PROJECT
EMAIL johnibe700@yahoo.it
DATE 25/08/2007
ATTN:
URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION/ASSISTANCE TO TRANSFER (US$10M)TEN MILLION U.S DOLLARS INTO YOUR PRIVATE ACCOUNT. we esteemed your particulars from the foreign chambers of commerce and industry in Nigeria.
I am Chief john ibe the Group Managing director of NNPC "CONTRACT TENDER COMMITTEE" NNPC PIPELINES MAINTENANCE PROJECT). of the Nigerian National Petroluem Crporation , Lagos Nigeria. I have been mandated by the Chairman Contranct Tender Board of Directors (NNPC) to source for a trusted foreign account where the sum of 10M will be transferred to.As Civil servant we are not permitted by the law of our country to operate or own foreign account and this money cannot go into an indigenous account because the contract and suppliers were being executed by foreign firms, this is why we are asking for your assitance to provide an account for us to facilitate the transfer of this fund for mutual benefit for both parties. The $10M is an accumulation of over invoicee contract inportation of goods, which has already been executed and commissioned. This amount still lies in the NNPC suspense account with tthe Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) and still in the fiscal year auditing as
retention fee owned to a foreign company. To transfer this money to the foreign companys account a fresh files has to be opened here in Niegeria in the foreign company name. Therefore we requested you to furnish us with your Banking particulars as follows:
1. YOUR FULL NAME, ADDRESS, TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER
2. NAME OF BANK, NAME OF ACCOUNT AND YOUR ACCOUNT NUMBER,
These documents should be faxed to me immediately you indicat your interest in this project to enable the Federal Government to approve all the relevant documents. It has been agreed that your company retain 25% of the $10M while 5% to offset any expenses incured by both parties during the course of the transaction. While we would take the remaining 70% of the $10M. To confide in you sir, all logistics are in place and modalites have been worked out with some top officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance (FMF) and Central Bank of Nigeria to facilitate the smooth and easy remittance of the amount into your bank account with ten working days of getting your positive response and confirmed consent. It is worthy to inform you that transaction is entirly based on trust since this money is going to be paid into your Bank Account. Thereafter, representatives of my group will come to your country to handle our own share of the proceed. Bear in mind that this is absolutely a
persona deal, non-official and should be trated with measure of SECRECY even at the Bank level and absolutely CONFIDENTIAL base on my position in the government.
Please get back immediately to me through my email above as :- (johnibe700@yahoo.it)
I await your immediate response.
Yours sincerely,
Chief JOHN IBE
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