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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: akas7cala@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:01:19 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Highly=20Confidential=20=2C=20=20=20I=20know=20you=20are=20not=20the=20contractor?=
Dr Akas Cala
Principal Auditor, Nigerian
National Petrolleum Corporation
(NNPC) Lagos, Nigeria
Attn:Sir/Madam
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,Mr Simon Alfred 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 contractor, 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.
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, 85% of the total sum will be for me and my colleagues
while 10% 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:(akascala@yahoo.ca)
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.
Thanks
Dr Akas Cala .
Note: get back to me with this E-mail address:(akascala@yahoo.ca)
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