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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: "Dr.ibrahim Hameed" <assisthameed@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 13:02:08 +0000
Subject: PARTNER RELATIONSHIP
Dear Partner,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP – STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
Firstly, I must solicit your strictest confidentiality in this transaction.
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and “TOP
SECRET.” Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone
apprehensive and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the
end of the day. We have decided to contact you first by your email due to
the urgency of this transaction, as we have been reliably informed 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.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Dr Ibrahim
Hameed, a director general in the Petroleum Ministry and I head a Six-man
tender board in charge of Contracts Awards and payment Approvals. I came to
know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a
very confidential business transaction which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence. I and my
colleagues are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review and
Award Panel. Our duties include evaluation, vetting, approval for payment of
contract jobs done for the Petroleum Ministry, etc. In order to commence
this business, we solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into
your account the said funds.
The source of this funds is as follows: During the last military regime here
in Nigeria, this committee awarded a contract of US$400,000,000.00 (Four
Hundred Million United States Dollars) to five construction firms on behalf
of the Petroleum Ministry for the supply, construction and installation of
Oil Pipeline from Warri to PortHarcourt. During this process my colleagues
and I decided amongst ourselves to deliberately over-inflate the total
contract sum to US$436,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and Thirty Six Million Five
Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) with the main intention of sharing
the remaining sum of US$36,500,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) amongst ourselves. The Federal Government of
Nigeria has since approved the sum of US$436,500,000.00 (Four Hundred and
Thirty Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) for us as
the contract sum, and the sum of US$400,000,000.00 (Four Hundred Million
United States Dollars) has also been paid to the foreign contractors
concerned as contract entitlements for the contract done, but since each of
the companies is entitled to US$80,000,000.00 only, we are now left with
US$36,500,000.00 balance in the account which we intend to transfer abroad
into a safe and reliable account to be disbursed amongst ourselves, but by
virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel, we
cannot do this by ourselves, as we are prohibited by the ‘Code of Conduct
Bureau’ (Civil Service Laws) from opening / operating foreign accounts in
our names, making it impossible for us to acquire the money in our names. I
have, therefore, been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the
panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would transfer
the sum of US$36,500,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars), hence we are writing you this letter.
My colleagues and I have agreed that if your company can act as the
beneficiary of this funds on our behalf, you or your company will retain 20%
of the total amount of US$36,500,000.00 (Thirty Six Million Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars), while 70% will be for us (members of this
panel) and the remaining 10% will be used in offsetting all debts/expenses
incurred (both local and foreign) in the cause of this transfer. Needless to
say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return we
demand your complete honesty and trust. You must however, NOTE that this
transaction will be strictly based on the following terms and conditions as
we have stated below, as we have heard confirmed cases of business
associates running away with funds kept in their custody when it finally
arrive their accounts. A very good and recent example is the one of Mr.
Peter Hopwood, the President of Mileage Trading and Investment Company at
Number 121, West 55th Street, 21st Floor, New York 10022, and former
Chairman of OMPADEC (Mr. Patrick Opia), who we were reliably informed that
after the agreement between both partners in which he was to take 15% of the
money, while the remaining 85% for Nigerian Officials. With all the required
documents signed, the money was duly transferred into his account, only to
be disappointed on their arrival in New York and were informed that Mr.
Peter Hopwood was no longer on that address, while his telephone and fax
numbers have been re-allocated to somebody else. This was how they lost
US$18.5 Million to Mr. Hopwood. This is a very recent story here in my
country and everybody is aware of this, some of the officials decided to cry
out and face the law, because they felt they had lost too much to a
stranger, while the Chairman of OMPADEC (Mr. Patrick Opia) is hiding in a
foreign country. So right now we are taking all precautionary measures to
guard against re-occurrence of such act in our case. This is why we have
decided that this transaction will be based completely on the following:
(a). Our conviction of your transparent honesty and diligence.
(b). That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and
confidentiality.
(c). That upon receipt of the funds, you will promptly release our share
(70%) on demand after you have removed your 20% and all expenses have been
settled.
(d). You must be ready to produce us with enough information about yourself
to put our minds at rest.
Please, note that this transaction is 100% legal and risk free and we hope
to conclude the business in Seven Bank working days from the date of receipt
of the necessary information and requirement from you.
Please, acknowledge the receipt of this letter using my email address. I
will bring you into the complete picture of the transaction when I have
heard from you.
Your urgent response will be highly appreciated as we are already behind
schedule for this financial quarter.
Thank you and God bless.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Ibrahim Hameed.
N.B.: Please, be reminded that this business transaction is 100% legal and
risk free.
Email:drhameedib@myway.com
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