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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: "Johnson Peters" <johnsonpeters_favour@debtmoonig.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:40:11 +0000
Subject: I await your urgent reply
From Office of Mr. Johnson Peters
Alhaji Shehu Shagari Way, Zone II Ikoyi
P.M.B: 12208 Lagos, Nigeria
Private email: johnsonpeters_favour@katamail.com
Dear Friend,
I am making this contact with you because I think you will be capable to
provide us with a solution to a money transfer of Thirty One million, five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$31,500,000.00), which is
presently in a coded account at one of the Nigerian Banks.
We are members of a special Committee set up for the review and award of
contracts by the department of Nigeria Petroleum and Mineral Resources. Our
status ranks from Ministerial post down to Directors-General. This Committee
is principally mandated by the new Civilian Government to review the bogus
and the over-inflated Contracts awarded since 1993 to May 1999, under the
regimes of the former heads of state of Nigeria - Late General Sani Abacha
who died in office in June, 1998 and his successor, General Abdulsalam
Abubakar who relinquished power in May, 1999.In the course of our duty, we
have so far been able to recover about US$135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and
Thirty-five Million United States Dollars) out of which we have used our
good offices to set aside the sum ofUS$31,500,000.00 for our utilization.
However as Civil Servants, our code of conduct strictly prohibits us from
operating or running a foreign Account, hence we decided to contact you and
ask for your assistance. Together with some of the top officials of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), and the Federal Ministry of
Finance, we plan to transfer this amount of money into an oversea Account by
awarding a non existent Contract from our parastatal (NNPC) to you, to
perfect the transfer. What we need from you is to provide very vital Bank
Account information into which the funds will be transferred to. The trust
reposed on you at this juncture is enormous and in return, we have agreed to
offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while 75% shall be for my two partners
and I.
Our conviction of your honesty and diligence that you would treat this
transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. That you will not sit
on the fund when it finally gets into your Account; That the funds would be
transferred to an interest bearing Account where the incidence of taxation
would not exert a heavy toll. I would like to assure you that I have
carefully and painstakingly made all arrangement to ensure the actualization
of this transaction that will be concluded within 14 working days. I want
you to send me your correct Bank details, your telephone and fax number and
also your contact address.
The nature of our communication is of utmost importance hence you must reach
me as soon as possible.Reply to Private email:
johnsonpeters_favour@katamail.com
Best Regard,
Mr. Johnson Peters (Honorable Supervisor).
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