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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: "Eki Ositadimma" <eki_ositadimma@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: samositadimma@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 12:25:10 -0700
Subject: TRUST
Dear Friend
Having obtained your contact through your local Chamber of Commerce here in
Nigeria, I strongly believe that your business dealing will be suitable for
the investment of ($21.5m) million (Twenty-one Million Five Hundred US
Dollars) into a foreign account.
INTRODUCTION OF MY SELF:
We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the
ministry of petroleum, this committee is principally concerned with contract
appraisals and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards
capital project of the federal government of Nigeria.
SOURCE OF FUNDS:
With our positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the above
sum. This amount was accumulated through undeclared windfall from sales of
crude oil during the gulf war. It may interest you to know that two years
ago a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the
president of craine international trading corporation at number 135, east
57th street, 28th floor, New York. 10022 with telephone (212) 308-7788 and
telex number 6731689, after the agreement between both partners in which he
was to take 5%. The money was duly transferred into his account only to be
disappointed on our arrival in New York as we were reliably informed that
Mr. Patrice miller was no longer on that address while his telephone and
telex numbers have been reallocated to somebody else, that is how we lost
us$27.5m to Mr. Patrice Miller.
YOUR ROLE:
What we need from you is to provide a safe account into which the funds will
be transferred since government officials are not allowed by our laws to
operate foreign account. It has been agreed that the owner of the account
will be compensated with US$4.3 million of the remitted funds, we keep
US$16.125 million while US$1.075 million will be set aside to offset
expenses and pay the necessary taxes. This time around we need a more
reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do business with
hence this letter to you.
So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested in this deal then
we are prepared to do business with you. What we want from you is the
assurance that you will let us have our share when this amount of us$21.5m
is transferred into your account.
It will be my greatest pleasure to do business with you. Please reply this
mail, I look forward to it.
Have a nice day my dear.
Dr. Sam Ositadimma
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