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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: "danjuma" <danjumareply@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: danjuma@mail.nu
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:35:45 +0100
Subject: Ugent Message
From:MUSA DANJUMA
A Director in the finance &
and Account Department of
The NIGERIAN NATIONAL
PETROLEUM CORPORATION
National headquters
F.C.T ABUJA.
Dear sir/madam
URGENT ATTENTION
Firstly I must solicit your confidence in this
transaction
This is by venture of it's nature as being
utterly confidential and of Top secret.Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make
anyone apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that all will
be well at the end of the day.We have
decided to contract you through this medium due to the
urgency of this transaction as we have been reliable
informed of your discreteness and ability.Let me star
by introducing myself to you. My name is MUSA DANJUMA and I am the
petroleum consultant to President,CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO (GCFRN)
federal republic of nigeria.
I am requesting your cooperation for immediate
acceptance into your bank account of my US$38Million. This amount
is my compensation from unofficial official payments made to us for
un-official crude petroleum deliveries to Ghana and the Gambia, our
West African neighbours which were under my supervision until the
operations were stopped last month.
All that has to do with this fund is decent, morally
sound and legal. But it is in United States Dollars, which attracts
undue attention especially when it is
connected with someone in and around Government.
Kindly reply as soon as possible so you can receive
all the details and the amount into your bank account. I am sure
the transfer will be made to your bank
within 5 working days (one week). And when the funds
are in your account, I shall allow that you keep 20% (twenty
percent of the (US$38M)for your personal account as compensation,
while the rest will be left for me in your account until I can take
over control in a short time. Indeed, I plan to invest substantial
part of my share with your guidance.
We shall sign a formal partnership agreement and I can
also make available my detailed profile and photographs to assure
you of my honesty and good faith.That, This transaction is of true and
fair view, of a clear conscience, due for your own
consideration. And it absolutely has nothing to do with SCAM or it
equivalent. however if you are convinced in assisting me in this
transaction please reply me including the means of communicating
with you as it is stated in this proposal , this will
enable me pencil down the whole DETAILS of this transaction to you
in the best form you closed to updated or informed, as we proceed.I
await your urgent reply with your telephone and fax numbers,the
bank name and a/c which will enable me prepare and send you the
relevant documents.for the immediate transfer of this money into
your a/c.
sir/madam, i await your urgent reply for the immediate
for the speedy take off,of this project.
Your sincerely,
MUSA DANJUMA
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