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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: "Nimi Briggs" <nimi_briggs01@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: nimibriggs017@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:05:34 +0000
Subject: Mutually Beneficial (Study Proposal)

Engr. Nimi Briggs
14, African Church Street
Ikeja - Lagos,Nigeria.

Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am Engr. Nimi Briggs, a management consultant in the Directorate of Petroleum
Resources (DPR);I am a member of the Tenders Board, a Committee in charge
of Contract Awards and Payment Approvals (C A P A).I got your contact during
my quest for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential
transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign
account.

There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of Multinationals
in the oil industry in favour of the (DPR) among which were: The expansion
of Pipeline network within Nigeria for crude oil and downstream products
distribution and subsequent evacuation. - US$2 Billion.Contract for Turn
Around Maintenance (TAM) at the various Refineries in the country.The construction
of Storage Tanks for Petroleum Product (Depots) -US$94 Million.

The original value of these contracts were deliberately over invoiced to
the tune of Thirty Six million, Five Hundred and sixty one thousand United
States Dollars (USD$36,561,000.00) which has recently been approved and
now ready to be paid.However the companies that actually executed the aforementioned
contracts have been fully paid and the projects officially commissioned.

Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount
to your account for subsequent disbursement,since we as civil servants are
prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening
and/ or operating foreign accounts in our names.

Needless to say, the trust reposed in you at this juncture is enormous.In
return, we have agreed amongst ourselves to offer you 10% of the transferred
sum,while 5% shall be set aside for any incidental expenses during the course
of this transaction, you will then be mandated to revert the balance 85%
to us in due course, or as will be advised in due course.

You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to the following
terms and conditions: Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence,
that you must accord this transaction with utmost confidentiality and secrecy.

Modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry of
Finance, Central Bank of Nigeria and the Presidential Committee on Local
and Foreign Contract Payment for the immediate remittance of the funds within
10-14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated terms.Our
assurance is that your role shall be totally risked free.To accord this
transaction the legality it deserves, and for mutual security of the funds,
the whole approval procedures shall be legally processed with your name
or any company you may nominate as the bona fide beneficiary of the funds.

Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 20 years of
service to my country,I am very much averse to having my image and career
dented.This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency.Kindly
expedite action as we are well behind schedule to enable us include this
transfer in this quarter's contractual payments schedule.
Endeavour to contact me immediately.

Thank You.

Yours sincerely,

Engr. Nimi Briggs.


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