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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: bello50@tiscali.co.uk
Reply-To: bellosalim22@yahoo.ca
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 09:02:16 -0700
Subject: from bello salim
DEAR FRIEND,
I am Bello Salim, Chairman of Contract Award and
Verification Panel set up by the Nigeria Ministry of Aviation. I got your
contact from the net during my personal search, after thorough
deliberations, my colleagues and I decided to contact you for a very
confidential business transaction of mutual benefit .During our verification
exercise, we came across an over-invoiced contract (Contract
No:(FMA/PED/1473/96).
This contract was awarded in July, 1999 and completed in August, 2001,
and the original contractor has since been paid his contract sum
leaving the over-invoiced sum of Ten Million United States Dollars This
amount have been left floating in our
account with the federation bank, until our recent discovery.
My colleagues and I have decided to seek for the assistance of a
reliable foreign partner into whose account the fund will be transferred
into for our own use.
If this proposal is acceptable to you, a "Deed of Transfer" of the
above contract will be obtained on your behalf, to empower you as the
legal beneficiary of the contract and the sum to be transferred. All
necessary and relevant documents will be procured for the release and
transfer of the fund into your nominated account.
An application for foreign exchange allocation will be made on your
behalf from my office to the federal ministry of finance (FMF) and the
federation bank for the subsequent release and transfer of the fund
into your nominated account. Be informed that we are working in
collaboration with top officials of the federal ministry of finance and
the
federation bank, who will assist us in the transfer of the fund. With
your cooperation the success of this transaction is guaranteed.
We have agreed to compensate you with 25% of the total sum, 70% will
be for me and my colleagues here, while the remaining 5% have been
mapped-out for miscellaneous expenses that might be incurred by both
parties during the course of this transaction. All things being equal,
this transaction will be concluded within 6 working days upon the day of
receipt of your response. You are required to email us your nominated
bank account details and your direct telephone and fax numbers.
Please treat this transaction with top priority and remember to keep
it as confidential as possible. As soon as we receive your response,
more details about how to proceed will be given to you.
Best Regards,
Mr.Bello Salim.
Chairman, and Contract Award & Verification Panel
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