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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: senator_a_ok1@handbag.com
Reply-To: senator_a_o1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 19:06:07 +0200
Subject: ATTENTION: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR
PRESIDENCY
FEDERAL REPUBILC OF NIGERIA
PANEL ON CONTRACT REVIEW/INVESTIGATION ON FORIEGN CONTRACT PAYMENT
FEDERAL SECRETARIAT COMPLEX, NIGERIA
ATTENTION: HONOURABLE CONTRACTOR
I am Senator Andrew Okafor , the Chairman of the above panel. His Excellency,
President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered for immediate review and investigation
on contracts awarded to both Local and Foreign contractors staring from 1985
to date both executed and unexecuted and for immediate payment on my contract
satisfactorily done and confirm to be legally awarded. Upon this decision,
the president inaugurated this Panel and I was appointed to head the panel,
hence all contract files were passed to me from all the dissolved task forces
on contract
payment and from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) since CBN lost its credibility
during the Military regime. This Panel was mandated to pay off any contract
certified okay after the review and reconciliation.
However, after the investigation on your contract file which proved your
claim to be illegal and unrealistic, I decided to send this confidential
message.
We have decided to contact you first by your email due to the urgency of
this transaction, as we have been reliablyinformed that it will take at least
two to three weeks for a normal post to reach you. So we
decided it is best using the email.
I crave your understanding of the fact that no contract was genuinely awarded
to you by the Federal Government of Nigeria. That this fund you are claiming
emanated through a deliberate over-invoicing of contract genuinely awarded
to a German Firm by some members of the Contract Award Committee. These workers
contacted you to come and put up claims
on this since as Civil Servants, law does not allow them to run any overseas
accounts.
For the fact that original contractor has paid long ago, they used their
positions to obtain all the required documents to back up this claims.
I am to cancel this payment after investigation but for a reason which I
will let you know when I hear from you, I decided to seek your confidential
co-operation. Nobody knows the outcome of this
investigation. I decided to keep it confidential to seek your opinion on
this matter, "I HAVE INTEREST ON THIS FUND" and I decided to write a favorable
report on your behalf confirming your claims to be genuine.
With this satisfactory report, a Legal clearance Certificate will be obtained
onyour behalf from th e Federal Ministry of Justice to legally back up your
claims as now required by the Civilian Government.
Considering your financial input to this transaction, all financial obligations
will be taken up by both of us towards the successful conclusion of this
lingering transaction, but this depend on your
acknowledgement of this letter and our agreement on the sharing of the fund
and your guarantee on my share getting to me at this end. This piece of information
which you have at hand now, is the true position of things and it is obvious
to you.
You may be getting one or two information from your partners and other people
the reasons that are holding this payment, but I am telling you for your
own interest to stop further communications with these people concerning
this payment because the truth is what you have at hand now and no other
person knows. I am categorically telling you that without my instructions,
this fund cannot get to you otherwise you end up spending more money without
success.
For confidentiality and security reasons, I expect to hear from you between
now and the next 3 days from the date of receipt of this message in aknowledgement
of this proposal, otherwise, I will believe you are not interested and I
will go ahead to recommend the cancellation of the contract payment outrightly.
Best regard,
Senator Andrew Okafor
Chairman.
___________________________________________________________
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