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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: john_ajayi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:44:04 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?MUTUAL=20BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP?=
FROM THE DESK OF
JOHN AJAYI.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT(NNPC)
Dear friend
MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP-STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
I am JOHN AJAYI,the chief accountant of The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) and I head a five man tender board in charge of contract awardand
payment approvals.I came to know of you in my search for a reliable person
to handle a very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of
a huge sum of money to a foreign account.
There were series of contracts executed by a consortion of multinationals
in the oil industry in favour of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC).After careful observation,We found out that one the contract was
over inflated to the tune of $39.5m usd We agree to TRANSFER this sum of
money into a foreign account.On our search for an honest person to use,we
came across your name.
I and my colleagues,have decided to forward this business proposal to you.We
want a reliable person who can assist us to transfer the sum of Thirty-nine
Million, five Hundred Thousand U.S Dollars ($39.5m) into his account. The
sum resulted from an over-invoice bill from a contract awarded by us over
the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment
by the concerned ministries. The contract was executed, commission and the
contractor was paid actual cost of the contract. We are left with balance
of $39.5 as the over-invoice amount we have deliberately over estimated
for our use. But under our protocol division, civi servant are forbidden
to operate or own foreign account. This is why I contact you for assistance.
We have agreed to share the money as follows:
(1) 70% for us ( the officials)
(2) 20% for your (Account Owner)
(3) 10% for Expenses (External and internal)
I am a top official with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)and
the chairman, contract Award committee). This transaction is very free from
all sort of risk, hence the business was carefully planned before it was
successfully excuted. We the officials involved in this deal have put in
many years in service to our various ministries.We have been exercising
patience for this opportunity for so long and for most of us, this is a
life time opportunity we can't afford to miss. To get this fund paid into
your account, we have to present an international business outfit and consequent
upon your agreement, you are require to send the following document information
through this box e-mail
(1)Your full names,
(2)your house Address,
(3) Your Privat tellphone and TelFax Number for an easy and
confidential communication
These information documents will enable us seek apply for the relevant payment
approvals of the fund to the concern ministries esterblishment.You may be
require to sign the fund released authority documents in our National Bank.Three
officials will come to your country to arrange for our share.
All these will only take us 14 working days to transfer this fund into your
account right from the day we receive the requirements. Let honesty be our
watch word throughout this transaction and your prompt and continous reply
will be appreciated through my e-mail
Best regards,
JOHN AJAYI
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