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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: dr isa william <will.drisa22@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:55:15 +0100
Subject: Goodday (REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT CO-OPERATION/ASSISTANCE HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL)
Goodday (REQUEST FOR YOUR URGENT CO-OPERATION/ASSISTANCE HIGHLY
CONFIDENTIAL)
I am a member of a special Government Committee set up for the Review and
Award of contracts by the Federal Ministry Of Works and Housing. Our status
rank from, Ministerial post down to Director-Generals. This Committee was
principally mandated by the past Military Government to review the bogus and
over-inflated contracts awarded since 1993 to May 1998, under the regime of
Late General Sani Abacha who died in office in June 1998.
In the course of our duty, we were able to recover about
US$1,380,000,000.00(One
Billion, Three Hundred and Eighty Million United States Dollars) out of
which we have used our good offices to set aside the sum of
US$48,140,000.00for our utilization. However, as serving Civil
Servants, our Code of Conduct
Laws strictly prohibits us from owning or operating a foreign account, hence
we decided to contact you and ask for your assistance confidentially.
Together with some of the top officials of the Federal Ministry of Finance,
we plan to transfer this amount of money into an oversea account by awarding
a non-existent contract from the FMW&H to you, to perfect the transfer. What
we need from you is to provide a very vital account into which the Funds
will be transferred. The trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous,
hence in return we have agreed to offer you 15% of the transferred sum,
while 5% shall be set aside as incidental expenses (both internal and
external) incurred between the parties, in the course of the whole
transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance to other accounts in
due course.
You must note however that this transaction is subject to the following
terms and conditions:
a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
b) That you will treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality.
c) That the funds would be transferred to an interest-bearing account where
the incidence of taxation would not exert a heavy toll.
It may interest you to know that in 1999, a similar transaction was carried
out with one Signore Paolo Luigi, a Director of an Italian firm who made
away with our funds. This time around, we need a more reliable and
trustworthy person to do business with, hence this letter to you. So if you
can prove yourself trusted and are interested in this deal, then we are
prepared to do business with you. If this proposal satisfies you, kindly
include your telephone and fax numbers in your response to enable us send
you additional information/documents. Please kindly treat as urgent and
strictly confidential. I honestly assure you that this transaction is 100%
hitch-free and legal.
Please if you are in acceptance of this transaction try to in time send to
me your confidential and direct contact Tel/Fax numbers so that I can send
to you details concerning the timely and successful completion of this
project. You can reach me through this email address as stated.
I look forward to your urgent reply and thanking you for your anticipated
co-operation.Upon receiving your email i or Mr Victor Ado will contact you
immidiately
Yours truly,
Dr. Isa Williams.
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