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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: evansrimi205@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 01:41:19 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20=20CONTACT?=



FROM:DR EVANS RIMI

I am DR EVANS RIMI member of the Presidential Payment
Verification Committee (PPVC) of the Federal Government Of Nigeria, West
Africa and also a Director of Project Implementation with the NNPC.

I am presently on assignment with my colleagues in ministry of finance and
presidency carrying out routine verification of contractual claims on behalf
of the NNPC.

I apologized for using this medium to reach you for a
transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality
and prompt access reposed on this medium. In unfolding this proposal, I
want to count on you, as a respected and honest person to handle this transaction
with sincerity, trust and confidentiality.

I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the process
of actualizing our dreams described hereunder. For the benefit of all parties
and hope you will keep it in confidence because of the nature of this transaction
within the NNPC and Ministry of Finance (FMF), where I work as Director
of Project Implementation.

With the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our Possession
overdue payment bills which we are presently verifying, to the tune of Twenty
Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$26,500,000.)
which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of
a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a
reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds.

More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the Civil Service Code
of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account Hence your importance
in the whole transaction.

This amount $26.5m represents the balance of the total
contract value Executed on behalf of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced
deliberately in the course of our verification exercise.

Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the
original contractor, leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount
which we have in principle gotten approval to remit by Key Tested Telegraphic
Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing
in an application to NNPC and the Ministry of Finance for the transfer of
Rights and Privileges to the contractual sum to your account.

I have the authority of my partners involved to Propose that should you
be willing to assist us in the Transaction, your share of the sum would
be 30% of the $26.5million, 60% for us and 10% for taxation and miscellaneous
expenses.

The business itself is 100% safe, on your part you
just have to assure us your sincerity .

Your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the
successful execution of this transaction.
I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you
would not disappoint me.

Should you be interested in this transaction,please
notify me through this my alternative email address (evans_rimi@myway.com).
I assure you that my partners and I are in a position to make the payment
of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance
and guarantee that our share would be secured and please always remember
to treat this matter with the utmost confidentiality, as any form of exposure
would compromise our positions in this government, being active Government
Civil Servants.

Once again, remember time is of great essence in this
transaction.

I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-peration.
Yours faithfully,

DR EVANS RIMI



N.B:PLEASE ALL RESPONSE SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO
evans_rimi@myway.com







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