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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: "Graham philips" <grahpp@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: drgrah@excite.com
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 09:13:30 +0100
Subject: PLS REPLY
PLS REPLY
DR.GRAHAM PHILIPS
ECONOMIC RECOVERY COMMITTE
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT,
NIGERIA.
Dear Sir,
BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$25.5 M (TWENTY-FIVE
MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS)
& BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction, this
is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret
as you were introduced to us in confidence through the Nigerian Chamber
of Commerce, foreign trade
division. and if the contents of this mail does meet with your approval,
I humbly crave your indulgence.
I am DR.GRAHAM PHILIPS, the chairman of the Economic Recovery Committee
(ERC) set up by the present civilian Government of Nigeria to review economic
policies of government establishments/parastatals, and find out ways to
reduce waste and maximise revenues allocated to them.
In the course of our work at the ERC, we discovered this fund which resulted
from gross re-valuation of contracts by top government
officials of the Nigeria National Petroluem Coperation (NNPC). The company
that executed the contracts have been duly paid and the contracts commissioned,
leaving the sum of US$25.5M Million lying unclaimed in the RESERVE ACCOUNT
of Nigeria Government.Upon interogation of the directors of engineering
and finance, who both were my contemporaries in the university, they confessed
to me in confidence that they had an agreement with the original contractor
to re-valuate the original contract by 30%,as
gratification to them. This 30% which amounts to US$25.2M was to be their
share from the contract, they pleaded to me not to disclose this information
to the government as they will lose their jobs and their family names destroyed,
which I discussed with the other two members of my committee and we all
unanimously agreed to find a foreign contractor who should put a legal
claim on the fund and have the money transferred to his or her account
as the contractor that completed the contract.
I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in
the committee to look for an overseas partner to whom we could used to
receive this sum of US$25.5 M legally, by sub-contracting the original
contract to your
company. This is bearing in mind that our civil service code of conduct
forbids us from owning foreign company or running foreign account while
in government service, hence I am contacting you for this mutual transaction.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth
conclusion of the transaction within ten to
fourteen days of commencement.
Thanks as I wait for your mail soon and could you
please include your telephone number to enable me call you too.
DR.GRAHAM PHILIPS
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