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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: "philipo hanandez" <philipohan@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrphilipohanandez@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:48:28 +0000
Subject: FROM MR. PHILIPO HANANDEZ
Attn: President/Ceo.
I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we
are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for
foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual
benefit.
I am a member of the Government of Venezuela Contract Award and Monitoring
Committee in the ministry of Energy and Petroleum.Petroquímica de Venezuela,
S.A.(PDVSA). Sometime ago,a contract was awarded to a foriegn firm in
(PDVSA) by my committe. This contract was over invoiced to the tune of
US$30Million.(Thirty Million united States Dollars) PDVSA Carbozulia is in
charge of developing and commercializing the oil explorations in venezuela
the allocated 17 out of 20 oil wells at a cost of more than US$2.Bn US
DOLLARS (two billion us dollars).
Those contracts was awarded to various companies. This scheme involves at
least ten exploratory areas: (Delta Amacuro). Among others, Guasare, Zulia
State, where the largest reserve of the mineral is located. This was done
deliberately,the over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to benefit from
the project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense
Account with (PDVSA) into your Overseas Account which we expect you to
provide for us. SHARE: - For providing the account where we shall remit the
money into,you will be entitled to 20% of the money,70% will be for me and
my partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any
upfront or out of pocket expenses that may be incurred by all parties during
the course of this transfer,both locally and international expenses.In order
for us to commence the transaction i would require the following:
1.Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2.Your bank name,address and account details.(May an account with zero
balance)
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to your
account.It does not matter whether or not your company does contract
projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company
won the major contract and subcontracted it to other companies. More often
than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fileds win major
contract and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution of such
contract.
We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the BANCO CENTRAL DE
VENEZUELA,as well some personels from the ministry of finance will work
together with us in this deal. Therefore, when the business is successfully
concluded we shall through our same connections to retrieve all the
documents used from all the concerned Government ministries for
distructions.
I have a good connection in the ministry. We are ordinary VENEZUELA
Government workers and we will not want to miss this once in a lifetime
opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the
overseas Accounts at this moment.
contact me immediately through my email for more information. I wait in
anticipation to receive your response.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Philipo Angelo Hanandez
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