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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: stanlawson@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:30:51 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20Assistance=20Needed=2E?=
DR Stanley Lawson.
PORTHHARCOURT NIGERIA.
I am Dr Stanley Lawson, an Accountant in the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and I head a seven man tenders board in charge of Contract
Awards and Payment Approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a
reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction
which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.
There were series of contracts executed by a Consortium of Multinationals
in the oil industry in favor of NNPC among which were:
(1) The expansion of the pipeline network within Nigeria for crude oil and
downstream products distributed and subsequent evacuation - US$5 Billion
(2) Contract for the Turn Around Maintenance (TAM) of the various Refineries
in the country
(3) The construction of storage tanks for Petroleum Products (Depots) -
US$90 Million
The original value of these contracts were deliberately over-invoiced in
the sum of Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars ($18,500,000.00)
which has now been approved and is now ready to be transferred being that
the companies that actually executed these contracts have fully been paid
and the projects officially commissioned.
Consequently, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount
to your account for subsequent disbursement, since we as civil servants
are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening
and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous.
In return, we have agreed to offer you 20% of the transferred sum, while
5% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between
the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit
the balance to other accounts in due course.
You must NOTE that this transaction is subject to the following terms and
condition
a) Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence
b) That you would treat this transaction with upmost secrecy and confidentiality
c) That the funds would be transferred to an interest bearing account where
the incidence of taxation would not exert a heavy toll.
Modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry of
Finance and the Central bank of Nigeria for an immediate transfer of funds
within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated
terms. Our assurance is that your role is risk-free.
To accord this transaction the legality it deserves and for mutual security
of the fund, the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally
processed with your name or the name of any company you may nominate as
the bonafide beneficiary.
Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 17 years in
the civil service of my country, I am averse to having my image and career
dented. This matter should therefore be treated with upmost secrecy and
urgency.
Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us include this
transfer in last batch which would constitute the FIRST quarter payments
for the 2005 financial year.
Yours sincerely
Stanley Lawson
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