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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: "Odutola Johnson" <odutolajohn@indiatimes.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:01:21 -0700
Subject: Business Relationship
FROM: Odutola Johnson.
Plot 243 Kofo Abayomi Street
Victoria Island
Lagos-Nigeria
Tel:234-1-260465
Attn:President/Ceo.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we are
using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign
assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and Monitoring
Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation(NNPC). Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign
firm in NNPC by my Committee. This contract was over invoiced to the
tune of US$21.5M. U.S. Dollars. This was done deliberately. The
over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from the
project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense
Account with NNPC into any Overseas Account which we expect you to
provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you
will be entitled to 30% of the money,60% will be for me andmy
partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover
any expenses that maybe incurred by us during the course of this
transfer, both locally and international expenses.
I would require the following: -
Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a
matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer
to your account.
It does not matter whether or not your company does contract projects
of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company
won the major contract and subcontracted it out to other companies.
More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated
fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms
for execution of such contracts.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank
of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no
doubt that all the money will be released and transferred if we get
the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal.
Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall
through our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the
concerned Government Ministries for 100% security.
We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a
lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be
transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present
Democratic Government start Auditing all Federal Government owned
Parastatals.
Please contact me immediately through my telephone number whether or
not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will enable me
scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal. But where
you are interested,send the required documents aforementioned herein
through my above telephone number,or
email: odutolajohnson@ummah.org ,because time is of the essence in this
business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Odutola Johnson
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