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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: "Funsho Kupolokun" <funsho@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kukpolokun@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:46:35 -0800
Subject: Mutual interest
FROM THE PERSONNAL DESK OF THE Engr.Moses FUNSHO KUPOLOKUN
The Chief Executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
ATTENTTION
DEAR SIR,
I will like to use this medium introduced myself. My name is Engr.moses Funsho Kupolokun, the Chief Executive group managering Director of the contract award committee nigerian national petroleum corportion [NNPC]. I got your particulars from internet and decided to confide in you with special
regards to your profession, to carried out this transaction with you. I and my colleagues are due for retirement very soon. So we have decided to seek avenue for significant private investment to escape the inadequacy of our
collapsing pension scheme. So base on this poor pension scheme; we have decided to confide with you to carried out this transaction in order to off-set our numerous bills and to have a joint investment with you. I have been ordered by my colleagues to arrange with you or your company for immediate movement US $23.5 million dollars to your account. However, the fund will be secretly and successfully transfer to your account. There is no risk involve. Our colleagues in the banking sector are ready to help if we could find a reliable individual or company that will receive the fund on our behalf. This is important because the nature of my work will not give me ample time to leave office at will but as soon as the fund is confirmed in your account, I will resign from service before my retirement time and come over our share of the fund and subsequent investment plan. I must declare that the funds are as a result of over-invoiced of the contract awarded last!
year.
Note: We decided to contact you base on the trust and confidentiality in respect of your profession to stand as the beneficially of this huge amount of money. It is necessary to let you know that there is no risk involve in this transaction. We will share the money in a ratio that will be satisfactory to all concerned under agreement. However, 60% will be for us (officials) 30% for you (recipient) While 10% will used to pay back all expenses incurred by either parties during the cause of the transfer of the money.
We are ready to provide you all the legally necessary documents to back up the transfer of the money to your position. It will enable you directly issue transfer instruction as the bonafide beneficiary of the money. There is really is no need for further delay I am willing to send you details for confirmation. But I need to emphasize the need for trust and confidentially on this transaction. As soon as you receive this message, mail me and send me your private phone number, fax number, mail address,
account information where the money will be transfer. Immediately you send this information I will forward you details for confirmation. Meanwhile I like to have heart to heart discussion on this transaction with you on my mobile
Regards,
Funsho Kupolokun
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