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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: "Dr. Samuel Rotimi" <drsamuelrotimi@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: samuelrotimi@mail.com
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 23:16:16 -0700
Subject: Business Transaction
Dear Sir,
I am Dr.Rotimi Samuel, the chairman of contract award and review committee
set up by the federal government of Nigeria under the new civilian dispensation
to award new contracts and review existing ones.
I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to
handle a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a
huge sum of money to a foreign account.
There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of multi-national
sin the oil industry in favor of N.N.P.C. The original values of these contracts
were deliberately over invoiced to the sum of US$45,320,000.00 (Forty five
Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United State Dollars). This amount
has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred being that the
companies that actually executed these contracts have been fully Paid and
the projects officially commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount
to your account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants
are prohibited by the code of conduct bureau (civil service law) from operating
and/or opening foreign accounts in our names. Needless to say, the trust
reposed on you at this juncture is enormous, in return, we have agreed to
offer you 20% of the transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for incidental
expenses (internal and external) between both parties in the course of the
transaction you will be mandated to remit the balance to other accounts
in due course.
Modalities have been worked out at the highest level of the Ministry of
Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the
funds within 7 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated
terms.
Our assurance is that your role is risk free. To accord this transaction
the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the funds the whole
approval procedures will officially and legally processed with your name
or the name of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary.
Once more I want you to understand that having put in over twenty-five years
in the civil service of my country, I am averse to having my image and career
dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and
urgency it deserves.
Please you should signify your intention to assist by sending me a reply
to this email to state your position on this transaction, if favorable we
will take further steps to brief you the full details of this viable transaction.
I want to assure you that this business proposal is 100% risk free as we
have done our homework properly.
I quite believe that you will protect our interest by taking this deal strictly
confidential, as we are still in government service, which we intend to
retire from in full honor.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include this
transfer in the next batch which would constitute the first quarter payments
for the 2005 financial year.
Thank you and God bless.
Dr.Rotimi Samuel,
The chairman of contract award and review committee.
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