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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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Fraud email example:
From: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: engr.larrygohon@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:36:29 +0100
Subject: Greetings to you and family,
Greetings to you and family,
I am Engr.Larry Gohon, the chairperson of the Contract Award Committee of
the OIL AND GAS Industry here in Republic of Benin. After due deliberation
with my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal that
will benefit both of us.
We want you to assist us receive the sum of Seven Million United State
Dollars (US$7000,000.00) cash in your country, which we have arranged to
move out of here to a save place where we can have access to it and invest
the money, the fund is currently with a security company.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the
budget allocation to the ministry and the bill was approved for payment by
the concerned ministries and was dully paid. The contract was executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid his actual cost of the contract.
Now, we are left with the balance of USD$7000,000.00 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
(that is why I contacted you).
We have agreed to share the money in the following percentages: 30 percent
for you, 65 percent for us 5 percent for re-imbursement of expenses we may
incur during the shipment of the fund to you in your country.
Note that this transaction is very much free from all sorts of risk (100%
risk free)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. Upon indication of your interest to
fully co-operate with us and your readiness to receive this fund from us and
keep it save till we come to your country and share it, you are then
required to send to me immediately the below information for security
reasons and onward action towards this business deal.
As soon as I receive this required information, I will process the
transaction and direct the security company to immediately ship the fund to
you. But before that, you have to assure me that you are not going to
disappear with the money when it is successfully delivered to you in your
country.
1) Your full contact address.
2) Your private telephone numbers/Fax.
3) Occupation
My partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for our own
share and possibly invest part of the money in a lucrative business, this is
as soon as the funds is successfully shipped to you and you receive it in
your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout this transaction. Your
prompt Reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards..
Engr.Larry Gohon.
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