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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: "DR.MOMOH USENI." <f_ahmed@tiscali.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: m_useni@virgilio.it
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 00:32:07 -0800
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST
FROM: DR.MOMOH USENI.
25 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.
FAX NO.:1 435 514 7136
ATTN: Sir/Madam,
I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good health and
success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained
in this letter.
Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first implore
you to treat with the utmost confidentiality as this is required for its
success and to have faith in this transaction, for opportunities like
this only comes to one once in a life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of my
country's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who are interested in diverting
some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the Apex Bank
of my country. In order to commence this transaction, we solicit for
your assistance to enable us transfer into your nominated account the
said floating funds.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime
in my country, government officials set up companies and awarded
themselves contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various
ministries and parastatals. The present civilian government set up the
Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of
payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel, to
review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed
outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds,
which are presently floating in our (Apex) Central Bank, ready for
disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of
this panel, we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names
of companies that are based in my country. I have therefore been
mandated, as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look
for a reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer the
sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred thousand U.S.
dollars). That is why I am seeking your assistance. We have agreed to
share the money to be transferred into your account, if you agree with
our proposition as follows;
(i) 25% to the account owner (you).
(ii) 65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses (by
both you and us) incidental to the actualization of this project.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign
stock markets and other viable business till we are ready and able to
have access to them without raising any eyebrows here at home. Please
note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free. We intend to
effect the transfer within ten (10) banking days from the date of
receipt of the following information through the fax number stated
above: Your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers; we will
use your company's name to apply for the payment and backdate the award
of the contract in favour of your company. We are looking forward to
doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost
confidentiality in this transaction.
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when
I hear from you. Please get in touch through my email address
above.
Best regards,
Dr. Momoh Useni.
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