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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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From: azuomaossai@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:39:22 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WORK=20WITH=20US=2E?=
Sir,
REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
Most competent people are choosen for competent jobs and assignments, and
with that due respect have we also choosen to select you and contact you
on this very confidential matter.
Our Nigerian Chamber of Commerce and industry offers variety of names of
notable people from your part of the Globe. That was where I got your information
from. Therefore, after due deliberation with my partners, we decided to
forward to you this proposal. We believe that you would be in a position
to help us in our bid to transfer the sum of
US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five hundred thousand dollars only) into a foreign
account. We shall make it 100% legal as much possible as you would want.
We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the Ministry
of Petroleum. This committee is principally concerned with contract appraisals
and approval of contracts in order of priorities as regards CAPITAL PROJECTS
of the Federal Government of Nigeria. With our positions, we have successfully
secured for ourselves the sum of Forty-one Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars(US$41.5M).
We are working with the present Democratically elected Government in my
country, and we are seeking the support of Foreign Government to win the
next election coming up in the year 2007, which the race has started. So
they have given directive to all Federal Parastatals to settle all Foreign
Contractors being owed for contract that they have done. Therefore, our
plan is to include your name as one of the contractors being owed in our
corporation.
What we need from you is to provide a safe Account into which the funds
will be transferred since Government Officials in my country are not allowed
by our laws to Operate Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed that you will
be compensated with US$8.3 Million of the remitted funds. US$31.125Million
belongs to us, while US$2.075Million will be set aside to offset expenses
and pay the necessary taxes.
It may interest you to know that two years ago a similar transaction was
carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane International
Trading Corporation at number 135, East 57th street, 28th floor, New York
10022, with Telephone (212)308-7788 and Telex Number 6731689. After the
agreement between both of us in which he was to take 25% of the money as
his share, the money was duly transferred into his Account. We were disappointed
on our arrival in New York as we were reliably informed that Mr. Patrice
Miller was no longer on that address while his Telephone and Telex Numbers
have been reallocated to somebody else. That was how we lost US$27.5M to
Mr.Patrice Miller.
This time around we would not want you to be like that. We need a more reliable
and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this business with,
hence we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be trusted and interested
in this deal then we are prepared to do business with you. What we want
from you is the assurance that you will let us have our share when this
amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your account.
If this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can advice you
on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this transfer, have
been worked out and once started will not take more than 7 Banking days
with the absolute support of all concerned. This transaction is 100% safe
and risk free now and after the transfer.
Kindly treat this as urgent and very confidential.
Best regards.
Engineer Azuoma Ossai.
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