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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: "james biko" <jbikko@msn.com>
Reply-To: jbikko@yahoo.com.au
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:52:14 +0000
Subject: gift to you
Dear Sir,
I am Dr.James Biko, the chairman of contract award and review committee set
up by the federal
government of Nigeria under the new civilian dispensation to award new
contracts and review
existing ones. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and
reputable person to handle
a very confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum
of money to a
foreign account.There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of
multi-nationals in
the oil industry infavor of N.N.P.C.
The original values of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced to
the sum of
US$12,320,000.00 (Twelve Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand United
States Dollars). This
amount has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred being that
the companies that
actually executed these contracts have been fully Paid and the projects
officially
commissioned.Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the
total amount to
your account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants are
prohibited by the code
of conduct bureau (civil service law) from operating and/or opening
foreign accounts in our
names. Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is
enormous, in return, we
have agreed to offer you 20% of the transferred sum, while 10% shall be
set aside for
incidental expenses (internal and external) between both parties in the
course of the
transaction you will be mandated to remit the balance to other accounts in
due course.
Modalities have been worked out at the highest levelof the Ministry of
Finance and the Central
Bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the funds within 7 working
days subject to your
satisfaction of the above stated terms.Our assurance is that your role is
risk free. To accord
this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the
funds the whole
approval procedures will officially and legally processed with your name or
the name of any
company you may nominate as the bonefide beneficiary.Once more I want you
to understand that
having put in over twenty-five years in the civil service of my country, I
am averse to having
my image and career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with
utmost secrecy and
urgency it deserves.
Please you should signify your intention to assist by sending me a reply
through
jbikko@yahoo.com.au to state your position on this transaction, if
favorable we will take
further steps to brief you the full details of this viable transaction.I
want to assure you
that this business proposal is100% risk free as we have done our homework
properly.I quite
believe that you will protect our interest by taking this deal strictly
confidential, as we
are still in government service, which we intend to retire from in full
honor. Kindly expedite
action as we are behind schedule to enable us include this transfer in the
next batch which
would constitute this quarter payments for the 2005 financial year.
Thank you and God bless.
Dr.James Biko.
NB.You are the only person I have contacted for now. Please let me know your
capabilities as
regards my proposal, as I do not intend to contact any other person, until I
am convinced that
you are not capable to assist me.
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