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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: "EXPATRIATECONTRACT" <expatriate_contract@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: solomonpaulwaziri@gawab.com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:44:07 -0700
Subject: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE
From: Dr. Paul Solomon Waziri ,
16 Kingsway Rd,
Ikoyi, Lagos.
REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
I am Dr. Paul Solomon Waziri an Accountant in the Nigerian National
Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and I head a seven-man tenders committee in charge
of
Foreign/Expatriate Contract Awards Review and Payment Approvals
(CRPAC).
I came to know of your name and address in my search for a reliable and
low-key person to handle a very confidential transaction based on
unflinching
trust as we have not met before.
This transaction involves the transfer of huge sum of foreign exchange
(the
United States Dollars) to a foreign account. There were a series of
contracts
executed by a Consortium of Multinationals in the oil industry in
favour
of NNPC among which
are:
(1) The expansion and rehabilitation of the ageing pipeline network
within
Nigeria for crude oil and downstream products distribution and
evacuation
- US$9 Billion
(2) Contracts for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the four
epileptic
refineries in the country (3) The construction of more storage tanks
and
maintenance and
servicing of old ones for Petroleum Products Storage (Depots) -US$90
Million
(4) The construction of Escravos Gas Poduction Offshore facility.
The original value of these contracts was deliberately over-invoiced in
the sum of USD Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
($18,500,000.00) by this committee (CRPAC) during the awards of the
various
contract. This sum ($18,500,000.00) has now been approved for payment
by
this committee (CRPAC) and is now ready to be transfered by the Central
Bank of Nigeria to the account of
any individual and or company which the CRPAC presents as the
beneficiary,
since the company that actually executed these contracts has been fully
paid their
fund and the projects have been officialy commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing totransfer the total
amount
to your account for subsequent disbursement on our behalf,
since we as civil servants and we are also serving in a sensitive
foreign
payment approval committee (CRPAC) are prohibited by the Code of
Conduct
Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening or operating foreign account
and
or dealing in foreign exchange in
ournames. Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is
enormous. In return,we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred
sum,
while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses(internal and
external)
accrued between the parties in the course of the transaction.
The balance will be used to purchase agricultural equipment and medical
drugs from your country for importation back to my country.You must
however
note that this transaction is subject to the following terms and
conditions:
a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence
b) That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality
c) That you have an unflincing trust in us, and our ability to complete
all official processes with your co-operation.
(d) That the funds would be transfered to an ordinary account which you
have total control over.
Modalities have been worked out (secretly) at the highest levels of the
relevant government departments involved and the Central Bank of
Nigeria
for the immediate transfer of funds within 14 working days subject to
your
satisfaction of the above stated terms.
Our assurance is that your role is risk-free. To accord this
transaction
the legality it deserves and for mutual security of the fund, the whole
approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your
name
or the name of any company you may
nominate as the bonafide beneficiary, as in an ideal situation.
It is imperative that you bear in mind that having put in 19 years in
the
service of the government, I am averse to having my image and career
dented.This
matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency.
Kindly expedite action by contacting me on my e-mail address,
indicating
your interest in this transaction. For swift response to your
reply,kindly
indicate your fax and telephone numbers clearly so that I can explain
further,
especially by fax. I am urgently waiting your reply
as payment to foreign contractors is usually made on quarterly
basis.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. paul Solomon Waziri
__________________________________________________________________
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