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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: oelizabeth@handbag.com
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 15:35:46 +0100
Subject: Private Business Offer
FROM:FROM THE DESK OF HONOURABLE CHAIRMAN
LOCAL & FOREIGN DEBT RECONCILIATION PANEL
ASO ROCK, ABUJA.
ATTN: Sir/Madam,
With due respect and trust I write this confidential letter to you, Believing
that it will be of great interest to you. I got your contact While on a
private research on the Internet for a reliable and capable Foreign partner
who will be willing to involve in a confidential transaction with us.
I am Mrs. Elizabeth Ogali, the Confidential Secretary to the newly appointed
Chairman of the Local and Foreign Debt Reconciliation Panel of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria. The transaction we proposing is an offer. This offer
is an amount from Federal Government left over. It is a total sum of US$21,500,000.00
(Twenty-One Million Five Hundred United States Dollars), which will be shared
between you and us in the ratio of 70% - 30%. The money is a left over from
the amount used in paying foreign contractors. As the Chairman of the Debt
Reconciliation panel; everything is directly under his (My boss) control.
We are offering you this, believing that you will be capable of keeping
the fund in safe custody and will hand over our share of 70% to us on demand.
However, we request for your unwavering assistance in this regard because
as civil servants we are prohibited under the civil service code of conduct
bureau from operating a foreign account or running a foreign company unless
after retirement in this vain we want you to front for us as partner to
enable us lodge the funds speedily into your account. Bear in mind that
no risk is attached to this project and all logistics are in place and modalities
worked out for the smooth conclusion within a stipulated time. This is in
accordance with the fact that you must never betray the trust already reposed
on you.
For your information, there will be no bureaucracy or misfortune. We have
every needed information and will hand it all over to you as soon as we
commence the transaction. With my boss position as the chairman of the Debt
Reconciliation Panel, he will quietly arrange everything. If you Cooperate
with us; this money will be transferred to you without hitches. We don't
have problems in regularizing all necessary documents so that we won't encounter
any difficulties. But the only problem is trust. It is
worthy of note that people are unreliable these days and even derive joy
in telling lies. On this ground, I request your sincere cooperation devoid
of greed in carrying out this transaction so that no one amongst us shall
defraud each other at the end of the day. We are only Prepared to split
at 70%-30% for you, provided our (70%) will be intact at the end of the
day. so if you are willing to make this deal with us, please, provide your
confidential phone and fax number to enable my boss (Dr. Robert Swafa) contact
you for further discussion on this matter to his private email address:
(r_swafa1@lycos.com)
Yours truly,
Mrs. Elizabeth Ogali
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