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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: salla_coker@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 07:58:16 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?re?=
FROM: DR.SALLA COKER.
25 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.
Goodday,
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 arastatals.
The present civilian government set up the Contract Review
Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of
payments made available to it by 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 partnerm 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 ( 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 through the fax number stated above: 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.Please get in touch
through my email address above.
Best regards,
DR.SALLA COKER.
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