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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: markus_thomson@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 00:25:33 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP=2E?=
From Dr.Markus Thomson
Dear Sir/Madam,
REQUEST FOR AN URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.
After due deliberation with my colleagues, I have decided to forward to
you this business proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us
to transfer the sum of Twenty Million Five Hundred thousand United States
Dollars ($20,500,000) into his/her account.
This fund resulted by way of gratification from a contract awarded by us
under the budget allocation to my Ministry and this bill has been approved
for payment by the concerned Ministries. The contract has since been executed,commissioned
and the contractors company, paid off. We are left with the balance of US$20.5M
which was given to us by the company for
influencing the contract in their favour amidst heavy competition from rival
companies.
But under our protocol division,civil servants are forbidden to operateor
own foreign accounts this is why I am contacting you to be our custodian
for this fund.
As you may want to know and to make you less curious, I got your address
from adverts in the business directory that portrayed your establishmentin
good light. I am the Chief Accountant/Internal Auditor of the Contract Award
Committee( CAC )of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC).This
transaction is very much free from all sorts of RISKS and TROUBLE from my
government.
We the N.N.P.C.Officials involved in this deal have put in many years in
service to this Ministry.We have been exercising patience for this opportunity
for so long and to most of us this is a life time opportunity we cannot
afford to miss.
You need not to worry about the responsibilities of transferring this fund
into your account, for all the administrative steps needed for the transfer
of this fund into your designated bank account will be done by me.I and
my
colleagues have agreed to COMPENSATE you duly if agreement is reached by
both of us. I and one of my colleagues involved in this deal will come to
your country to arrange for our share, upon the confirmation from you that
the money has been credited into your nominated bank account.
We have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, where 10% shall
be set aside for incidental expenses (Internal and External) between in
the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance
to other account in due course. Consequent upon your acceptance of this
proposal, kindly confirm your interest by, your indication by revert Telephone
to me of your sincere and serious interest will enable me fax you the PROCEDURE
FOR OPERATION. If my line is busy, please keep trying you will surely get
through.
NOTE: In the event of your inability to handle this transaction please inform
us so that we can look for another reliable person who can assist in this
respect.It might surprise you why we choose you and trusted you for this
transaction.Yes, we believe that good friends can be discovered and business
like this can not be realized without trust.
This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction. We are looking
forward to doing this transaction with you.Be further informed that every
ones interest and security had been considered before you were contacted,
so be rest assured and feel free to go into this transaction with us. But
let Honesty and Trust be our watchword throughout this transaction and your
prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Thank you and God bless.
Best Regards,
Dr.Markus Thomson.
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