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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: abdullahiabu@handbag.com
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:29:36 -0800
Subject: strictly confidential.
Dear sir,
May I crave your indulgence to open this business discussion by a formal
letter of this sort. It is pertinent that a business of this magnitude
should have commenced properly with a formal meeting of you and us to
enable us know ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature of the business,
discuss and acquaint ourselves with the responsibilities and functions
of parties concerned, and appropriate shares accordingly.
However, for time factor, confidentiality and personality of people involved
here in Nigeria,
we choose this approach for the remittance of this Twenty Million U.S.
Dollars (US$20.0M). Please bear with us for making the initial contact
through e-mail. But my partners are insisting for a meeting in order not
to fall into
a wrong hand again. I am DR.ABDULLAHI ABU, we are members of the special
committee for Budget and Planning of the Ministry of Petroleum. This
committee is principally concerned with contract appraisal and the approval
of the contracts in order of priorities as regards capital projects of
the past military government of Nigeria. With our positions, we have successfully
secured for ourselves this sum of Twenty Million U.S.
Dollars (US$20.0M). This amount was accumulated through undeclared windfall
sales of crude oil during the gulf war. Hence together with two of our
top officials at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), we
plan to transfer this amount of money into a secure verseas account by awarding
a sort of contract from the NNPC. To this effect I have been given the
mandate by my colleagues to contact you and ask foryour assistance.What
we need from you is to provide a nice account in which the funds will be
transferred. My colleagues and I have agreed to compensate you
or the owner of the account used for this transaction with 30% of the totalamount
remitted. We shall have 65% and the remaining 5% reserved for taxes and
other miscellaneous expenses in your country. It may interest you to know
that last two years a similar transaction was carried out with one Mr.Roger
Moore, the President of Craine International Trading Corporation at number
135 East 57th Street, 28th Floor, New York, NY 10022 with telephone number
(212) 308-7788 and telex number 6731689. After the agreement between both
partners in which he was to take 20% of the money
while the remaining 80% for us. With all the required documents signed,
the money
was duly transferred into this account only to be disappointed on our arrival
in New York, and we were eliably informed that Mr. Roger Moore was no
longer on that address while his telephone and telex numbers have been
reallocated to somebody else.
That was how we lost US$9 Million to Mr. Roger Moore.This time around we
need a more reliable and trustworthy person or a reputable company to do
business with hence this letter to you. So if you can prove yourself to
be trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business
with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us
have our share if this amount (US$20.0M) is transferred into your account.
If this proposal is okay by you, then reply through my email urgently so
that we can set the ball rolling and negotiate the modalities involved.
Kindly, treat as very important and strictly confidential, I honestly assure
you that this transaction is 100% risk-free. I look forward to your response
and expected co-operation and
you can also contact me on my private emaill address,it is:
abdullahiabu2004@yahoo.com
God bless you.
Regards
DR.ABDULLAHI ABU.
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