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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: "Michael Osilama" <michaelosilama@sify.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 15:38:33 -0800
Subject: We can do this
Dear Friend
I am sorry to bother you with this issue which really you may find undesirable. I however consider it worthy.
What I need us to do together is simple and could reveal for us a life time's fulfilment.
It concerns one Late Brigadier General John Mark Inienger. His last military portfolio was as Commandant of the Nigerian War Colleg before he retired. It is not news how the erstwhile military rulers in Nigeria carted for themselves huge sums of public funds. And such was the class of Late Brigadier General Inienger. He had held several other positions of imeense relevance in our body polity here.
In a bid to protect himself and have the money fully concealed, he consulted me in my capacity as an employee in Zenith Bank, then I had not become the Company Secretary but was just an officer in the Legal Department. I thus advised him to place the money in a corporate account. Which he rightly did, in the name: INIMARK LIMITED. He had US$22 Million in a Foreign Domiciary Account and had himself as the sole signatory.
Late Inienger died a couple of years ago. And his family have long ago shared his estate among himself. Especially with his first son who was granted Letters of Administration over his estate by the Plateau State High Court of Justice. However, the US$22 Million has remained in our bank's custody and has become dormant over the years since nobody knew what transpired on the account issue. Late Inienger had not disclosed this to any of his children at the time of his death, because as he had informed me, he was not sure which of his children he wanted to avail the use and benefit since he ran a polygamous marriage.
Now, I want us to device a way to have this money available to you and I in the proportion of 40% for you and 60% for me. It is simple, since it is a corporate account (INIMARK LIMITED), by Nigerian Law, it is not subject to the probate granted to his son Benjamin Inienger as the Corporate entity (INIMARK LIMITED as regarded by law is distinct from any inidivdual whether its Director or Shareholder). All we need do is to have you appointed as a Director in the company, change the account mandate to have you as the sole signatory upon which you can now instruct our bank where to transfer the money in your favour. I have several external solicitors who will be so willing to do the necessary filings at the Corporate Affairs Commission. By this way no one will ever get to know what transpired as you would in same way instruct them to close the account after we are done. It is as simple as this and I am abreast with the procedure in my capacity as a Legal Practitioner of many years he
re. And even at the Corporate Affairs Commission, we could finally bring up volountary winding up proceedings to bring the company into perpetual extinct. And that way all tracks are closed.
At the moment, I am the Company Secretary/Head of Legal Services in Zenith Bank Plc. I do not want you to consider this as just one more spurious mail on the internet, but I want you to take this seriously from a Legal Practitioner of my class and a key officer of such an institution as Zenith Bank Plc which is the most profitable bank in Nigeria.
Please let me hear from you on this as quickly as humanly possible so we could get done.
Yours sincerely
Michael Osilama Otu (Esq)
Head, Legal/Company Secretary
Zenith Bank Plc
Plot 84, Ajose Adeogun
Victoria Island
Lagos - Nigeria
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