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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: "Jacob Harry" <jacoharry@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:04:07 +0000
Subject: From: Dr. Jacob Harry
From: Dr. Jacob Harry,
Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation,
Lagos - Nigeria.
Dear Sir/Madam
Your contact was given to me by a friend who was on a diplomatic mission in
your country upon my enquiry for a reliable firm to engage in business. The
same guaranteed your reliability and trust-worthiness in business matters. I
therefore wish to explain this lucrative business intention for our mutual
benefit,though I did not let that friend have the real idea of my intended
business proposal due to the level of confidentiality which the transaction
demands.
I am the chief accountant with "Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation"
(NNPC) Headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria. I am in a position to remit the sum
of $22,500,000.00 (TWENTY TWO MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED STATES
DOLLARS ONLY) into a reliable foreign account for our personal use.
This sum of $22,500,000.00 originated from a deliberate over-invoice (in the
contract payment voucher) of total value of contracts awarded to some
foreign contractors for the supply and erection of petrochemical and
pipeline equipment to "NNPC" refinery, Finnima, in Rivers State of Nigeria
in 1998.
With the view that as soon as the bonafide contractors receive their full
contract payments, we claim the balance for our personal use. The
contractors who executed the relative contracts have since been paid their
full contract sums leaving the $22.5 Million floating in the federated
account of "NNPC" with the Central Bank of Nigeria, secured as
crredit/payment to a foreign contractor. It is therefore due for us to claim
this balance sum as final phase payment to a foreign contractor but we
cannot accomplish this without collaborating with a foreign firm into whose
account this sum will be transfered as the beneficiary of the fund.
Moreover, as civil servants, we are not allowed to operate foreign accounts.
It is to this effect that I have been mandated to communicate you for
maximum assistance/co-operation.
For your understanding, we (partners here) have solidified and perfected
arrangements to push out this fund legitimately on legal grounds in such a
way that no risk of partners on either side is involved. We have made
careful and necessary arrangements for the smooth transfer of the fund to
your account as would be provided.
For your assistance, we have agreed to compensate you with 25% of the whole
sum to be transfered to your account and 5% set aside to replenish expences
incured in the process of the transaction while 70% comes to the officials
on my side.
Let me know immediately, your interest and willingness to enable me furnish
you with the modus operandi of the business.
Please,send your reply through email
(jacoharry@hotmail.com)
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Jacob Harry.
+234-80546-09439.
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