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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: "uche amechi" <ucheamechi02@tiscali.it>
Reply-To: uche_amechi@tiscali.it
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:17:37 +0100
Subject: Dear Sir,
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. uche Amechi of the above address. I am sorry if I have intruded
on your privacy or barged on you without your permission.
I have a very rewarding business offer which I will want us to be involved
in together with all trust, confidentiality and good brotherliness.
I was a member of the organizing committee of the just concluded "ALL AFRICAN
GAMES" which was organized and hosted by Nigeria but before now I have been
the director of sports in the Federal Ministry of Sports.
We were appointed over 3 years ago to supervise the building of the ultra
modern Abuja National Stadium, putting in place all equipments needed for
the completion of the stadium which is acclaimed to be one of the best in
the world today and hosting the games. This project cost the government
of Nigeria Millions of dollars.
Today the project has been completed commissioned and used for the hosting
of the All African Games and all equipments put in place. The accounts have
been rendered to the government satisfactorily and we have received commendations
for a job well done.
During the construction, planning and execution of this project, I was able
to make some money, which was kept in an escrow account from where contractors
were paid and materials purchsed until the project is completed. To my amazement
late last year I discovered that this money has reached an astonishing USD5.2
MILLION.
I am at a cross road now because I can not claim this money in my name as
I have declared it a contractors money while depositing it, secondly as
a government worker the civil service code of conduct does not allow me
to own or operate a domiciliary account with such a huge amount on it due
to the credit ceiling on savings.
All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this amount from the bank
while standing as one of the foreign contractors who have executed projects
but has not been paid and on whose behalf I have made the deposit.
On the payment of this money to you as the contractor I will come to meet
with you so that we can both sit down and discuss further what kind of business
we will enter into or if need be expand your already existing business,
talk on the interests we will get on our investments. Please feel free to
indicate what you will take from this amount, as this is very important
to us before we commence proceedings.
I will tell you more about this when I hear from you.
I will give you every detail and what you are to do.
Regards
Mr. uche Amechi.
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