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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: "DR.HENRY AYO." <henry_ayo@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: henryayo@netscape.net
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 15:07:36 +0100
Subject: URGENT REPLY.
FROM:DR.HENRY AYO.
25 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.
FAX: 1 435 514 7136
Greetings to you,
I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good health and
success in your pursuits particularly through my proposal as contained
in this letter.
Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first implore
you to treat with the utmost confidentiality as this is required for its
success and to have faith in this transaction, for opportunities like
this only comes to one once in a life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government
of my country's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who are interested
in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts
of the Apex Bank of my country. In order to commence this transaction,
we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into your nominated
account the said floating funds.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime in
my country, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves
contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and parastatals.
The present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has
the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to itby the
decree setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay
those who are being owed outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds, which
are presently floating in our (Apex) Central Bank, ready for disbursement and
would like to divert some of it for our own purposes.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel,
we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the names of companies that
are based in my country. I have therefore been mandated, as a matter of trust
by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into whose
account we can transfer the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five
hundred thousand U.S. dollars). That is why I am seeking your assistance.
We have agreed to share the money to be transferred into your account, if you
agree with our proposition as follows;
(i) 25% to the account owner (you).
(ii) 65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both
you and us) incidental to the actualization of this project.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets
and other viable business till we are ready and able to have access to them without
raising any eyebrows here at home. Please note that this transaction is 100% safe
and risk-free.
We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14) banking days from the date of
receipt of the following information. Your company's name, address, telephone and
fax numbers; we will use your company’s name to apply for the payment and
backdate the award of the contract in favour of your company. We are looking
forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost
confidentiality in this transaction.
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you.
You can send your telephone number, fax number for easy access to communicate.
Best regards,
Dr.Henry Ayo.
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