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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: "paul laye" <laye162@msn.com>
Reply-To: paullaye@terramail.com.sv
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:54:49 +0000
Subject: GREETINGS
FROM: Paul Laye Esq.
On behalf of Engr. S.U. Obiorah
Joint Development Authority (JDA)
Plot 1101 Aminu Kano Cresent
Wuse II, Abuja.
Nigeria.
Attn: Sir / Madam
I am contacting you on behalf of Engr. S. U. Obiorah, Executive Director,
Monitoring and Inspection, Nigeria-São Tomé & Principe Joint Development
Authority (JDA).This JDA is principally concerned with overall
responsibility of all matters relating to the exploration and exploitation
of the resources in the Joint Development Zones (JDZ) and vested with the
authority to approve contract developments which the JDA may propose to
enter into with any contractor, to approve the termination of contract
developments entered into between the JDA and contractors, contract due
process appraisal, budget monitoring and crude oil pricing intelligence. For
more details, go to www.nigeriasaotomejda.com
Considering his very strategic and influential position,he want the
transaction to be strictly confidential as possible. He further wants his
identity to remain undisclosed at least for now, until the completion of
the transaction. Hence our desire to have an overseas agent.
I am a subscriber to "The World Industrial Reporter (International Buyers'
Guide) edition to us quarterly from where I got your contact and your
profile and I felt you can handle this transaction without raising any
eye-brow.
I wish to crave your distinguished indulgence to formally open this business
discussion by a formal letter of this sort. it is pertinent that a business
of this magnitude should have commenced properly with a formal meeting of
you and us to enable us know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature
of the business, discuss and acquaint ourselves with the responsibilities
and functions of parties concerned, and appropriate shares of the funds
accordingly.
However, because of time factor, confidentiality and personality of people
involved, we choose this approach for the remittance of Twenty Eight Million
U.S. Dollars(US$28M). Please bear with us for making the initial contact
through e-mail. Although my partners are insisting for a meeting in order
not to fall into a wrong hand again but because time is of clear essence
now, I advised for a meeting after the consummation of this noble deal.
I have therefore been directed to inquire if you would agree to act as our
overseas agent in order to actualize this transaction. The deal in brief is
that the Twenty Eight Million U.S. Dollars(US$28M) with which we intend to
carry out our proposed investments in your country was accumulated through
undeclared windfall sales of crude oil during the American/Iraqi war but
presently in a coded account at the Nigeria Apex Bank (Central Bank of
Nigeria) and we need your assistance to transfer the funds to your country
in a convenient bank account that will be provided by you before we can put
the funds into use in your country.
For this, you shall be considered to have executed a contract with Joint
Development Authority (JDA) for which payment should be effected to you by
the Nigeria Apex Bank (Central Bank of Nigeria),The contract sum of which
shall run into US$28M (Twenty Eight Million United State Dollars) of which
your share shall be 25% of the total amount remitted if you agree to be
our overseas agent. We shall have 65% and the remaining 5% reserved for
taxes, logistics and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in the course of
the transaction.
Together with two top officials at the Nigeria-São Tomé & Principe Joint
Development Authority (JDA), we plan to transfer this amount of money into a
secure overseas account.
As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is
successfully transferred into your account, we intend to use our own share
in acquiring some estates and setting up trust accounts abroad. For this too
you shall also serve as our agent.
We are civil servants of integrity, still in active service for the
government and handicapped in the circumstances as the Civil Service code of
conduct does not allow us to operate offshore (foreign) accounts hence
sought your consent for assistance.
To get started,what we need from you is 1. Your company name and address.2.
Your personal fax number.3. Your personal telephone number for easy
communication and to provide a nice account in which the funds will be
transferred to after all paper works has be completed.
It may interest you to know that last year, a similar transaction was
carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the President of Crane
International Trading Corporation at number 135 East 57th Street, 28th
Floor, New York, NY 10022 with telephone number (212) 308-7788 and telex
number 6731689. After the agreement between both partners in which he was
to take 10% of the money while the remaining 90% for us. With all the
required documents signed, the money was duly transferred into his account
only to be disappointed on our arrival in New York, and we were reliably
informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his
telephone and telex numbers have been re-allocated to somebody else. That
was how we lost US$20Million to Mr. Patrice Miller.
This time around,we need a more reliable trustworthy and responsive person
or a reputable company to do business with hence this letter to you. So if
you can prove yourself to be trusted, responsive and reliable in this deal
then we are very prepared to do business with you and negotiate the
modalities involved.
What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share
if this amount (US$28M) is transferred into your account.
Kindly, treat as very important and strictly confidential, I honestly assure
you that this transaction is 100% risk-free and please mindfully to reply
through this private email address because of the confidentiality this deal
demands
I look forward to your reply and expected co-operation and God bless you.
Yours faithfully,
Barrister Paul Laye Esq.
Direct Line:+234-803-3280853.
Direct fax:+234-1-759 9306
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