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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: "Awulat Shagari" <awulatshagari@indiatimes.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:12:21 +0100
Subject: REQUEST FOR URGENT JOINT VENTURE INVESTMENT
REQUEST FOR URGENT JOINT VENTURE INVESTMENT
My Dear,
It is with trust and confidence that I make this urgent business proposal to you. I got your contact through Hong Kong business directory 2000 Edition. Having gone through your Company's products, I hereby inform you that I and my family is 100% interested in your product and would like to have a business relationship with you and your company.
I am Awulat Shagari, former Chairman of Task Force in charge of sales of Petroleum product and lifting of Crude Oil. In this position, I was privileged to keep in my custody for the Government the sum of $18 million dollars. This money was diverted from the
excess allocation of crude oil to the foreign dealers.
The present regime of president Obasanjo last year arrested and probe all Government parastatals of the National Petroleum Cooperation, due to loot and mis-management of Government fund by the workers. This action by Government is wildly interpreted to be selfish and act of envy because it affected both the innocent. Regardless of my enormous contribution for the sustenance of peace among the oil producing states that has been on war for 15 year now. What I received as a reward was only to confiscate all my properties and all my accounts frozen.
I have this money in my custody before the arrest but only declared $6 million dollars to the Government and still having $12 million dollars under my control but kept in the custody of a finance and a security firm in Europe. Due to restriction of Government placed on me since this problem, I cannot operate foreign account and cannot travel out of the country for the safe keeping of the money. Based on this, I need you as partner whom I can entrust and channel this money for a proper investment and in a joint venture platform in your country.
As soon as you contact me and we finalize, my wife or my son will be coming to your country to have a meeting with you, through which you will sign a TRUST BOND or AGREEMENT with my family concerning the safety of the entire transaction. I would therefore want to have more information about your company and the products. I will also be relying on your advise as regards to investment on a lucrative sector of investment in your country.
For your assistance and advise in identifying a lucrative sector of investment that will be of good benefit to my family and your own family even from generation to generation, I will be willing to offer you 10% of the Total money while 70% of the money will be used for the joint venture investment and remaining 20% will be kept in your account for my private use. For security reasons, please contact me immediately through my email address: awulatshagari@indiatimes.com or you can call me immediately through my private phone No. +234-803-3738325.
Anxiously waiting to hear from you.
Best regards,
AWULAT SHAGARI
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