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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: "Jim Fredrick Kananga" <jimffkk@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: jimfkan@omaninfo.com
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:39:45 -0700
Subject: MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

FROM THE DESK OF
MR.JIM FREDRICK KANANGA
N N P C.
TEL:234-80-35482219

MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I am Mr.Jim Fredrick Kananga,the chaiman contract award commitee of The
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and I head a five man tender
board in charge of contract award and payment approvals.I came to know of
you in my search for a reliable 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 consortion of
multinationals in the oil industry in favour of Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) among which were for the following:

1. The expansion of the pipelines network within for a crude down stream
products distribution and subsequent evacuation which cost $8bUSD(8 Billion
United States Dollars).

2. Contract for the turn around maintenance (TAM) of the various refineries
in the country $115 million Uited States Dollars.

3. The construction of storage tanks for petrolwum products (depots) $190
Million United States Dollars.

The original value of these contracts were delebrately over invoiced in
the sum $25.5mUSD (Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars Only) which has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred,
being that the companies that actually executed these contracts had been
fully paid when the projests were officially commissioned.

It does not matter whether your comapny did the contract or not, the assumption
is that your company won the major contract and sub-contracted it out to
other companies.

Consequently, my colleaques 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
imposed on you at this junction is
enormous.

In return, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while
5% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and
external) between the parties in the course of the transaction, and the
remaining 70% is for us,the Nigerian officials.

Modalities have been worked out at the highest level of the ministry of
finance and the central bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the
fund within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the
above stated terms.

Our assurance is that your role is risk free,I 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 the name of any
company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary of the above mentioned
amount.

Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through
our same connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned
government ministries for 100% security risk free.

Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 19 years in
the civil service of my country, I am very careful to have my image and
career deemed.

Please contact me immediately whether you are interested in this deal or
not, if you are not, it will enable us scout for another foreign partner
to carry out this deal but where you are interested send the required documents.

Thanks as I await in anticipation for your fullest co-operation.

Very truly yours,

Mr.Jim Fredrick Kananga.


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