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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: "macokpara" <macokpara@hotbrev.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 01:41:21 CET
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED?
Dear Sir/Madam,
My name is Mac Okpara, a member of the committee set up by the Federal
Government of Nigeria to supervise the activities of the Petroleum
Trust Fund (PTF), the agency that manages proceeds from the sale of
crude oil in my country. At the inception of the new democratic government
in my country, the Petroleum Trust Fund was ordered to wind up its
operation to enable the new committee take over.
The former Chairman of the agency in the person of
Major General Muhammed Buhari (Rtd.) was also retired. In its place
a new committee in which I am a member was appointed to take over and
oversee the activities of the agency. The duty of the committee amongst
others includes verifying all outstanding contract claims and debts
with the sole objective of settling such long overdue claims.
I therefore decided to contact you directly having gotten your name
and company's information from a business handbook of your
country I discovered in the former chairman's official study,
which he left behind in his office. Going through some of the files
left behind by the former chairman, we discovered that he has secured
out of the Central Bank of Nigeria a forex release to the tune of
US$25,500,000.00 for the payment of goods and services supplied by foreign
contractors for the execution of KUBUWA WATER PROJECT in the oil rich
Niger Delta. He was trying to transfer the funds to a ghost company
abroad when he was removed from office. In confidence, we know that the
goods and services were not supplied but used his office to approve the
payment in favour of a foreign firm with no fixed address.
He confided in me as a member of the new committee
that he used his position to over invoice the contract. After his
removal from office, this over invoiced amount is floating in the system and
left unclaimed. He has therefore requested me to help look for a foreign
company into whose account the funds will be transferred.
I am now soliciting for your cooperation to enable us
process the transfer of the funds to your account. You should
provide us your company's name or any other name as long as you will be able to
receive the amount. It will be treated as one of the outstanding
payments due to you on executed contract. We will take measure to
duly register your company here in Nigeria to give it legitimacy.
We need your company's name and account particulars to
enable us file application for foreign exchange allocation order at
the Federal Ministry of Finance. The moment we accomplish this, we
will raise Contract Award Certificate in your company's name to show that
a contract was actually awarded and executed by you. The nature of
your business does not matter.
For your participation and investing in this project,
we are prepared to concede 25% of the total sum to you. On completion
of the project, we will commit a substantial percentage of our share into
investments in your country and we will direct you on how to
repatriate the balance of our share. I wish to state here again that confidentiality should
be our watchword. If the above proposal meets your approval,
please respond immediately. Endeavour to furnish me with your secured
private telephone and fax line for easy reach through my email address:
macokpara@mail.com
Regards,
Mac Okpara
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