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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: aziz_bf08@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:28:02 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=28ASSALAMOU=20ALEKOUM=29?=
ATTN: CEO,
Date 18/11/2004.
REQUEST FOR URGENT TRANSFER OF THE SUM OF FIFTEEN MILLION THREE HUNDRED
THOUSAND DOLLARS {US$15,300,000.00} ONLY, INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.
Compliment of the season and happy Ramadan.
I am the Deputy Director of finance, foreign payment approval dept. of West
African Monetary Control Board (WAMCB). North-West Regional office Burkina
Faso. My office oversee all developmental projects financed by the Economic
Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Within this zone (Burkina Faso,
Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana and Guinea).
With reference to an introduction and recommendation of you by a friend
who works in the Burkina Faso Chambers of Commerce and Industry, I do hereby,
Wish to commence talk with you on a highly confidential level.
After due consultations with my colleagues, We have decided to contact
you in order to arrange for a possible transfer of the sum of Fifteen million
three hundred thousand dollars (US$15.300.000.00) into your account. This
money is a subject of an over inflated sum acquired from contracts awarded
by my Agency in the past years.
The original contractors have however, been paid and all projects executed
by them commissioned.
This over inflated amount can not be withdraw locally from the paying Bank
because the contractors concerned are foreign Firms. As a matter of trust,
honesty and secrecy, we have decided to contact you as to assist us provide
an account for this transaction if you have accepted to assist and fully
participate in this transaction, kindly furnish us with the necessary information
such as Bank address, Account number, Account name and your full address.
With this information provided, the said sum will be transfer to your account
without difficulties. The terms of sharing the money after asuccessful transfer
will be discuss as you indicate your interest in assisting to transfer this
money.
Immediately all these information gets to us, we will then present every
document to the paying bank. Be rest assured with our connections,everything
will be through within a short time.
After many years of meticulous services to the government and people of
our sub region we would not want our image to be dented. Therefore we expect
you to handle this transaction with utmost maturity by keeping everything
secret.
I can assure you that if our instructions are carefully adhered to, there
will not be any hitch through out the transaction, there is no risk on your
side, because we have perfected the deal very well over years.
After the transfer, we will be coming over to your country for further sharing
and possible investments.
I'm waiting to hear from you urgently.
Engnr.AZIZ AHMED.
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