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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: "tittoabubakar" <tittoabubakar@fastermail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 21:23:40 +1000
Subject: My Compliments.
Titto Abubakar.
Secretary, Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victorial-Island, Lagos.
Dear Sir,
I am a highly placed official of Government of Nigeria and also a founding
member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
My committee - The Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC)-which is in
charge of managing and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues
for the Nigerian government which covers payment to foreign and local
contractors that have executed contracts for our country.The revenue under
our control runs into several hundred of millions of dollars monthly. Myself
and other colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need of a foreign partner
with whose bank account we shall transfer the sum of Forty Nine Million Five
Hundred Thosand United States Dollars ($49.5m). This fund was accrued from
various over invoicing of foreign contractors' payments made over the years.
The Total fund is presently waiting in the Government Account named CBN/FGN
INDEPENDENT REVENUE account Central Bank of Nigeria.However, by virtue of
our position as civil servants and members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire
this funds in our name. This is because as top civil servants, we are not
allowed by law of the land to own or operate bank accounts outside our
country for now.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for an
overseas partner in whose account we would transfer the fund,hence the
reason for this mail.We shall be Transferring the money to your account with
your company as the beneficiary, under the guise that you are being paid for
a contract which you/your company executed for our country through the NDDC
and any other Federal Ministry that we decide to use to siphon the funds
through.
For your support and partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees or
the percentage you wish to be paid when the funds arrive your bank account.
You must however note that this transaction, with regards to our disposition
to continue with you, is subject to these terms. Firstly, our conviction of
your transparency.Secondly, that you treat this transaction with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and above all, that you will provide an
account over which you have absolute
control.
The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and there is no risk or
legal lliability either to ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we
have put in place the neccesary machinery that will ensure a hitch free
transfer into your account upon acceptance.
The transfer will be effected to your account within ten to fourteen (10-14)
working days from the date we reach an agreement. and furnish me with your
contact telephone and fax numbers in your response.
I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction, Please mail your response to me through
my confidential email address;tittoabubakar@corporation.net for me to update
you on our plans as to how we intend to actualize this transaction.
Yours Sincerely,
Titto Abubakar.
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