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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: da_yi@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 05:55:42 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Best=20regards?=

DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES
PLOT 225 KOFO ABAYOMI STREET,
VICTORIA ISLAND,
LAGOS, NIGERIA.

Dear Sir,

I am Mr.David Yisa. Member contract award committee of the above department.
Terms of Reference My term of reference involves the award of contracts
to multinational companies.

My office is saddled with the responsibility of contract award, screening,
categorization and prioritization of projects embarked upon by Department
of Petroleum Resources (DPR) as well as feasibility studies for selected
projects and supervising the project consultants involved. A breakdown of
the fiscal expenditure by this office as at the end of the last fiscal quarter
of 1999 indicates that DPR paid out a whooping sum of US$736M(Seven Hundred
And Thirty Six Million, United States Dollars) to successful contract beneficiaries.
The DPR is now compiling beneficiaries to be paid for the first Quarter
of 2004.

The crux of this letter is that the finance/contract department of the DPR
deliberately over -invoiced the contract value of the various contracts
awarded. In the course of disbursements, this department has been able to
accumulate the sum of US$38.2M(Thirty Eight Million, two hundred Thousand
U.S Dollars) as the over-invoiced sum. This money is currently in a suspense
account of the DPR account with the Debt Reconciliation Committee (DRC).
We now seek to process the transfer this fund officially as contract payment
to you as a foreign contractor, who will be fronting for us as the beneficiary
of the fund. In this way we can facilitate these funds into your nominated
account for possible investment abroad. We are not allowed as a matter of
government policy to operate any foreign account to transfer this fund into.


However, for your involvement in assisting us with this transfer into your
nominated account we have evolved a sharing formula as follows:

(1) 20% for you as the foreign partner
(2) 75% for I and my colleagues
(3) 5% will set aside to defray all incidental expenses both Locally and
Internationally during the course of this transaction.

We shall be relying on your advice as regard investment of our share in
any business in your country. Be informed that this business is genuine
and 100% safe considering the high-power government officials involved.
Send your private fax/telephone numbers. Upon your response we shall provide
you with further information on the procedures. Feel free to ask me question
where you don't understand okay. expecting your response immediately.

Looking forward to a good business relationship with you. at Email: da_yi@postaccesslite.com

Sincerely,

Mr.David Yisa



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