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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: "charles soludo" <cbn_apex@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: cbnnig_apex@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:17:30 -0800
Subject: ATTENTION
Dear Friend,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret due to my
position in the Government. Though, I know that a transaction of this
magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried. But I am assuring you
that it is 100% truth and risk free; hence my position. My name is Professor
Charles
C. Soludo, the Executive Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). The CBN
is my Country's Apex Bank, the sole institution for the licensing and
regulation of the Commercial Banking Sector.
I assumed duty on the 31st May 2004 as the Executive Governor of the Central
Bank of Nigeria. I write to disclose to you a great opportunity through
which both of us can work together and make real big money. I disclose this
to you with confidence, hoping that you will be able to work with me so that
we can achieve it.
It is about a LATE foreign contractor (MR. MORRIS THOMPSON) who did a
contract of $75,000,000 (SEVENTY FIVE MILLION U.S. DOLLARS) for the Federal
Government of Nigeria (FGN). The money is long over due to be remitted to
his bank account, but no one is to claim the money. He has no next of kin in
his file with the CBN. There is a provision for next of kin in the form he
filled at CBN but I don't know why he did not fill anybody as his next of
kin.
I want a trusted, truthful and straight-forward person with whom I will
claim this money, hence I contacted you. To claim the money, you will assist
by providing a very good bank account in your country and I will take his
file and fill in YOUR NAME as his Next Of Kin. I have 100% access to the
files because of my position as governor in CBN. Once I fill in your name, I
will then use a lawyer here to get a court affidavit to instruct CBN to pay
you the contract amount since you are the Next Of Kin as the original
contractor is dead. I will also instruct CBN to henceforth communicate with
you as the next of kin in respect of anything regarding the payment.
If we fail to claim the money, the money will be retained by the Government
and it will no longer be to our benefit. This is my primary aim why I don't
want to leave any stone unturned now that I am still in the Office.
Therefore; I think it befitting for us to claim the said fund as this will
go a long way to establishing a cordial long lasting business relationship
with you as my foreign partner. The late Mr. Thompson was an American, from
the city of Alaska He died together with his wife and their only daughter
aboard Alaska Airline flight number 261, on 31st of January, 2000. You can
read more about Mr. Morris Thompson and his family's death by clicking on
this web
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list
Please contact me as soon as you get my mail gets to you, let me know if you
are interested about this proposal. Send your Full Name (as would appear in
the form), Address, Bank Address, Private E-mail Address Phone and Fax
numbers while you respond. I look forward to your urgent response. Remember
to keep this a top secret until the transaction is completed.
God bless you.
Best regards,
Prof. Charles Soludo.
CBN Governor.
D/L 234-80-26730741.
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