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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: Frank Ibeneme <fibeneme3@unofree.it>
Reply-To: fibeneme3@tiscali.it
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:01:13 +0100
Subject: Good day to you.
Good day to you.
I hope this letter meets you well, I am Mr. FRANK IBENEME I am sorry if I have intruded on your privacy or barged in on you without your permission. I have a very rewarding project which I think will be beneficial to both of us putting trust,confidentialty and most of all the fear of God into focus. If after going through this email you do not find it interesting please disregard it and send me a formal response.
I was a member of the Abuja National stadium building and organizing committee of the just concluded "ALL AFRICAN GAMES" which was organized and hosted by Nigeria but before now I have been a director of sports in the Federal Ministry of Sports and Youth Development.
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 also involved in the planning and hosting of the games. This project cost the government of Nigeria Millions of dollars.
The stadium project has been completed,all equipments put in place and commissioned and used for the All African Games tagged "ABUJA 2003".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 set up by the government from where contractors were paid and materials purchased until the project is completed, I did this because I am not allowed by law as a civil servant to own or operate a domicilliary account in Nigeria or any where in the world, if found out that I own or operate such an account I will be prosecuted for breach of trust and going against the civil service code of conduct. To my amazement late last year I discovered that this money has reached an astonishing USD18.5 MILLION.
I am at a cross road now because I can not claim this money in my name as I have declared it Suppliers/contractors money while depositing it, secondly, if I turn this money in to the government I might be prosecuted for keeping such an amount without making it known in our record while rendering the account and finally, some top government officials in the presidency especially the politicians might declare it unclaimed fund and finally missing and share it amongst themselves.
Also as a civil servant my monthly take home pay after tax and other sundry deductions are at an average of between usd450 and usd500 meaning that all my life my salary will not give me such an amount of money, I am afraid therefore that my bank might even turn me in if i venture to open an account with that amount.
All I want you to do is to assist me in clearing this amount from the bank while standing in as the owner and director of Vacknol Nigeria International Limited in whose name I have made the deposit. Vacknol Nigeria International Limited is an international company and could have a company anywhere in the world the most important thing been that it is registered here in Nigeria as a limited liability company in line with the company and allied matters decree of Nigeria which I have since done, I have also in my possession some contract document which will act as proof that Vacknol Nigeria International Limited executed the contract as a sub contractor under Julius Berger Nigeria Ltd and the Dewolfgang Gmbh who are the major contractors.
On the payment of this money to you as the supplier in the name of Vacknol Nigeria International Limited because we will apply for the transfer in this name,and you as the director of the company. 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, but actually I hope to establish a five star hotel and go into real estate development as these are life time businesses that I know are of high yeild interest any where in the world.
I know you will be entitled to some percentage of this money as compensation for your efforts, 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 of what we are to do . I want to assure you my dear friend that with your cooperation and understanding the sky will be our limit. Please do contact me immediately.
Regards.
Frank Ibeneme
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