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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: tokumbo_paul@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 07:18:54 -0800
Subject: BUSINESS ASSISTANCE NEEDED URGENTELY
The Desk Of:
Dr Tokumbo Paul(Principal Auditor)
Nigerian National. Petrolleum
Corporation (Nnpc) Lagos, Nigeria
Attn:Sir/Madam
Compliment of the day to you. I wish to extend this mutual business proposal
to you with the hope that you will gladly accept. I am the principal auditor
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. A post I have held for the
past three years. In the course of discharging my duty last year, I discovered
that some government officials in the past, committed some irregularities
in the form of over-invoiced contract values which eventually go into their
private bank accounts.
What interested me most and for which reason I am writing you is this particular
contract which was awarded to a foreign contractor, it was over estimated
by the tune of us$35 m ( Thirty-five million u.s.dollars). This contract
has been completed and commissioned and the contractor fully paid, but the
us $ 12.3m over estimated value of the contract is still lying at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (cbn). Because of the haste with which the last government
was removed from office, these men has no chance to collect this money before
leaving the office. But as a result of updated payments advise at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN), it has been awaiting transfer to a foreign account.
In my report, I recommended that this money should be paid but on the condition
that the contractor should be informed.
My recommendation was accepted and I have been given the go-ahead order
to get in-touch with the foreign contractors, but since the contractor has
been fully paid for the job he did, I want to divert this money to another
foreign account. Having done all the necessary ground work, this money is
in my possession and I am looking forward for a trust worthy person into
whose private or company's account this money will be transferred into.
I wish to retire from service after this transaction and go into business
in your country through you as my agent.
You are therefore requested to kindly allow me to transfer this money into
your account so that I can withdraw this money when I want to. Upon the
transfer of this money, 65% of the total sum will be for me and my colleagues
while 30% shall be for you the account owner and the remaining 5% shall
be set aside to refund expenses made in the course of the transaction.
Be assured that this business is risk-free but the keyword is the confidentiality
due to the nature of the transaction and my position in the ministry. Kindly
treat as urgent and contact me immediately through my e-mail address:(tokumbo_paul@box.az)you
will be fully detailed when I hear from you. Your banking particulars, i.e
account number, telex, beneficiary, and your private telephone and fax numbers
are vital to the success of this transaction for updating and remittance
protocol.
Best Regards
Dr Tokumbo Paul.
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