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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: peter_abi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:30:12 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REQUEST=20FOR=20URGENT=20BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP?=
From The Desk Of: PETER ABI (B.Sc/M.Sc).
Director, Project Implementation
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
Falomo Office Complex, Ikoyi-Lagos.
Email ;petter_abi@YAHOO.COM
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and ?TOP SECRET.?
Though I know that a transaction of
this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring
you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have decided to contact
you first by your email due to the urgency of this transaction, as we have
been reliably informed that it will take at least two to three weeks for
a normal post to reach you. So we decided it is best using the email.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am PETER ABI
, a director general in the Petroleum Ministry and I head a five-man tender
board in charge of Contracts Awards and payment Approvals. I came to know
of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very
confidential business transaction which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I and my
colleagues are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review and
Award Panel. Our duties include evaluation, vetting, approval for payment
of contract jobs done for the Petroleum Ministry, etc. In order to commence
this business, we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into
your account the said funds.
The source of this funds is as follows :
During the last military regime here in Nigeria, this committee awarded
a contract of US$400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred Million United States Dollars)
to five construction firms on behalf of the Petroleum Ministry for the supply,
construction and installation of Oil Pipeline from Warri to PortHarcourt.
During this process my colleagues and I decided amongst ourselves to deliberately
over-inflate the total contract sum to US$445,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and
Fourty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with the
main intention of sharing
the remaining sum of US$45,500,000.00 (Fourty Five Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) amongst ourselves.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has since approved the sum of US$445,500,000.00
(Four Hundred and Fourty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States
Dollars) for us as the contract sum, and the sum of US$400,000,000.00 (Four
Hundred Million United States Dollars)
has also been paid to the foreign contractors concerned as contract entitlements
for the contract done, but since each of the companies is entitled to US$80,000,000.00
only, we are now left with US$45,500,000.00 balance in the account which
we intend to transfer abroad into a safe and reliable account to be disbursed
amongst ourselves, but by virtue of our positions as civil servants and
members of this panel, we cannot do this by ourselves, as we are prohibited
by the ?Code of Conduct Bureau? (Civil Service Laws) from opening / operating
foreign accounts in our names, making it impossible for us to acquire the
money in our names. I have, therefore, been mandated as a matter of trust
by my colleagues in the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose
account we would transfer the sum of US$45,500,000.00 (fourty one Million
Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), hence we are writing you this
letter.
My colleagues and I have agreed that if your company can act as the beneficiary
of this funds on our behalf, you or your company will retain 20% of the
total amount of US$45,500,000.00 (fourty one Million Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars), while 70% will be for us (members of this panel)
and the remaining 10% will be used in offsetting all debts/expenses incurred
(both local and foreign) in the cause of this transfer. Needless to say,
the trust reposed on you
at this juncture is enormous. In return we demand your complete honesty
and trust. You must however, Note that this transaction will be strictly
based on the following terms and conditions as we have stated below:
(a). Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
(b). That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
(c). That upon receipt of the funds, you will promptly release our share
(70%) on demand after you have removed your 20% and all expenses have been
settled.
(d). You must be ready to produce us with enough information about yourself
to put our minds at rest.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and risk free and we hope
to conclude the business in Seven Bank working days from the date of receipt
of the necessary information and requirement from you. Endeavour to acknowledge
the receipt of this letter using my
email address. I will bring you into the complete picture of the transaction
when I have heard from you. Your urgent response will be highly appreciated
as we are already behind schedule for this financial quarter. Thank you
and God bless.
Please send me your tel/fax numbers.
Yours faithfully,
PETER ABI
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