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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: "Benjamin K Oni" <benbow@katamail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 17:27:15
Subject: For your urgent attention
From:Benjamin.K. Oni
Add :Nigeria National Orientation Agency
Federal Ministry of Information
Radio House-Abuja.
Dear Sir,
I am Director of Civic registration and finance, Nigeria National Orientation
Agency (NNOA) Federal Ministry of Information. I must start this email by
acknowledging the wisdom in choosing to reveal my 2 years AMBITION
since the National Identity Card project was kicked off some 2 years ago
by a bill passed into law by the national assembly for the registration and
identification of every Nigerian above the age of 18 years.
During our final verification exercise we discovered an excess allocation
to our agency to the tune of Sixteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand
United States Dollar and we intend to keep this money for our personal
use by fronting you as one of the foreign contractors due for payment.
This sum (US$16.5Million) will be paid into your account as your
contractual entitlement.
The good news is that precisely 1st of April, 2004, 2 years after, the
government has started distributing the national identity card. The reason
am writing you this mail is that the Goverment of my country, federal
republic of Nigeria have approved allocation for payment due to all
contractor (Foreign and Local) to the agency and this gives us opportunity
to enrich ourselves and fulfill my ambition of becoming rich for the first time
but I cannot achieve this without the support of a foreign partner.
We are handicapped in the circumstances, as the Civil service code of
conduct does not allow us to operate offshore accounts hence your
importance in the whole transaction. Therefore, we want to utilize this
opportunity, as a lot of foreign contractors will be paid in this quarter of the
year to transfer the fund out of the country.
But do not disclose my identity or the actual nature of this transaction as I
am still a serving officer in the ministry.In other to present you/your
Company as the beneficiary of the sum of US$16.5M. For this
purpose we will incorporate your company and register you as a
contractor with the Nigerian National Orientation Agency (NNOA).
We will also by virtue of our official positions secure for your company the
necessary backup documentation that will facilitate the release/transfer of
the fund into your account. These documents of course will be destroyed
within 10-14 working days at the successful completion of the transfer.
We want to assure you that your help will not in any way bring your
company name into disrepute.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank
account, my partner and I will come over to your country to arrange for
our own share and possibly invest part of this money in your country.
We have agreed that you will retain 20% of the entire US$16.5M for your
efforts in this transaction, 80% for us here partners in nigeria.
Please reply urgently through my email address as we expect that the
transaction will not take more than ten working days. Please note that this
transaction must be top secret and let honesty and trust be our
watchword throughout.
Best Regards,
Oni.K.B.
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