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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: "Ibrahim Usman" <banker_stev@msn.com>
Reply-To: ibrahimusm@walla.com
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:17:40 +0000
Subject: Contract Award And Implementation ( From Engr. Ibrahim Usman)
FROM THE DESK OF ENGR IBRAHIM USMAN ALI
CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
POWER HOLDINGS COMPANY OF NIGERIA PLC (PHCN)
DIRECT TEL: +234-1-775 83 84
www.nepanigeria.org
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$8.5M
Dear Sir/Madam,
Although, I have not prior to this letter had any formal contact or
communication with you, however, your contact was personally
sourced by me in my quest for a reliable company, Investor, Businessman, or
partner to assist with an urgent business deal requiring utmost trust and
confidentiality. I know my medium of contact might make you apprehensive
owing to the spate of internet scams going round. But I want to assure you
that this is not one of such.
I am Engr Ibrahim Usman, Chairman, Contract Award and
Implementation Committee in the Power Holdings Company of Nigeria Plc
(PHCN), formally, National Electric Power Authority (NEPA). My duty includes
,awards of contracts, vetting same and making payments on behalf of my
Company (PHCN) alongside the Chief Accountants and Directors of Audit and I
have Engr. Kefi Mohammed as my Vice Chairman
SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed to privately invest
extensively in your country. I am intending to resign from Government
services to private business with some other officials of my Corporation
involved in this deal as partners. I have specifically been mandated to
arrange with you for terms of trade and possible transfer of the funds
needed for the investment into your company?s or personal account.
SOURCE OF FUND: This fund was incurred from an over invoiced contract
awarded to an American firm in the year, 2004 for the supply of Power
Transformers and High Tension Cables for RuralElectrification
Projects in the Niger Delta Communities of Nigeria. The original
value of this contract was purposely over estimated by us the
Tenders Board Committee to the tune of US$8.5M (Eight million,
Five hundred thousand US Dollars only). Now that the Original firm that
executed the contract has received its payment fully, we now want to
transfer the over invoiced sum to your company?s or Personal account and
privately invest in any profitable form of business. The US$8.5M has since
been approved for payment/remittance among other payments that have been
made. This
money is now floating in the Country?s Apex Bank, as a redundant
fund waiting to be claimed. Because of our Federal Government's new law on
Civil Service, Civil Servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct bureau
from owning or operating foreign bank accounts, hence, I solicit your help
to remit this fund into your company's or private account pending when we
come over for the sharing.
Please, do indicate your interest by writing to me via this email or
telephone provided above.
Your account details shall be required when it is due for the fund to be
transfered.
Note that as soon as we receive this information, they will be used to
prepare Documents to facilitate the final processing and
subsequent remittance of the fund to your nominated Bank account.
With this modality, it makes it possible for you to act as a
sub-contractor to the original firm that executed the Contract
This transaction is 100% risk-free having done all the underground works
locally for the smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account within
the shortest period. I advise that you keep this business a top secret and
rest all correspondences to E-mail and phone only because I am occupying a
sensitive position in the government circle and also this is once in a life
time opportunity.
Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on my
structions and that our own share of the money will be safe. We have jointly
agreed to reward you with 10% of the total sum for your honest assistance
and co-operation while 85% will be for my colleagues and me. And the
remaining 5% will be mapped out for settling all expenses (local and
foreign) incurred in the course of this transaction
Please, do indicate your interest via the email as given below.
Best Regards
Engr. Ibrahim Usman
Email:ibrahimusm@walla.com
NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist, kindly
delete/destroy this email in view of the confidentiality of the
proposed transaction and interest of personalities involved.
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