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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: "Abba Ibrahim Yahaya" <abba_yahaya@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: abba-yahaya@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:30:01 +0000
Subject: Re: My Inquiry
DR.ABBA IBRAHIM YAHAYA
Managing Director
Gulf Bank Nigeria Plc.,
44, Broad Street,
Lagos, Nigeria.
Attn: Sir / Madam,
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S. DOLLARS
I am DR.ABBA IBRAHIM YAHAYA the managing director of Gulf Bank Of Nigeria
Plc, the banker to the late head of state of Nigeria who died on June 8th
1998 under mysterious circumstance. I got your contact through my search
for a reliable and trustworthily person to handle this top-secret
transaction. You must therefore keep this transaction a VERY TOP SECRET.
THE SOURCE OF THE FUND
The late dictator General Sanni Abacha deposited the sum of $825.3 million
U.S. Dollars in his private account means which I am the managing director,
but with serious conferment in me that I would never reveal this to anybody
apart from his wife Mrs. Maryam Abacha, which he go as an over invoice from
the Ajaokuta Steel Mill the proposal largest steel Mill in African
continent.
The contract was awarded to a Russian firm, but after his mysterious death,
the new military government that emerged then set-up a commission of
enquiries into all contacts awarded by the late dictator, but could not
complete their mission due to the emergence of a democratic government
headed by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo as the president of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, who vowed to continue with the predecessor commitment by setting
up commission of enquiries to track down the account of the late dictator
both in Nigeria and overseas, through different ways by media and other
means.
In this cause I have declared $800 million United states Dollars to the
Federal Government of Nigeria as the family have no knowledge of the total
amount deposited in my bank. While I have transferred the balance of $25.3
million U.S. Dollars to a subsidiary of Gulf Bank Plc. With the knowledge of
three senior officers of the bank. But we cannot lay claims to this found
due to our position in the bank.
We therefore solicit your assistance in transferring this amount to your
private or company account, as this transaction is risk free with our
involvement. We thereby agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum
while 75% would be shared among us, the officials.
The said amount was transferred to SECURITY VAULT & FINANCE COMPANY IN
ABROAD through diplomatic immunities granted to banks in Nigeria and coded
for security reasons to avoid a re-occurrence of a past incident in London
in which 1.6 Billion Pounds Sterling belonging to the late dictator was
siezed.
If you have any positive response toward my proposal, please contact me
without delay.
I look forward to your earliest response.
GOD Bless you.
Best Regards
Dr. Abba Ibrahim Yahaya
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