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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: Contracts Review Panel <contractsreview@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:44:38 +0200
Subject: PARTNER NEEDED
CONFIDENTIAL
158 Awolowo Street,
victoria Island,
Lagos.
Tel:00234 80324 80515
IFax:0015016356881
EMAIL:john.dauda2005@laposte.net
1/6/2005
ATTN:THE PRESIDENT/CEO
FROM:JOHN DAUDA.
Dear Sir,
I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good health and success in your pursuits particularly
through my proposal as contained in this letter.
Before going into details of my proposal to you, I must first implore you to treat with the utmost
confidentiality as this is required for its success and to have faith in this transaction,for opportunities like
this only comes to one once in a life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal Government of my country's Contracts Review
Panel (CRP) who are interested in diverting some funds that are presently floating in the accounts of the
Apex Bank of my country.In order to commence this transaction,we solicit for your assistance to enable
us transfer into your nominated account the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the
transfer before the end of this quarter of 2005.
The source of the funds are as follows: During the last military regime in my country,government officials
set up companies and awarded themselves contracts that were grossly over-invoiced in various
ministries and parastatals.The present civilian government set up the Contract Review Panel, which has
the mandate to use the instruments of payments made available to it by the decree setting up the panel,
to review these contracts and if necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these funds which are presently floating in our
(Apex) Central Bank ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for our own purposes.
However, by virtue of our positions as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these
funds in our names or in the names of companies that are based in my country. I have therefore been
mandated,as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas partner into
whose account we can transfer the sum of U.S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred thousand
U.S. dollars).That is why I am seeking your assistance. We have agreed to share the money to be
transferred into your account, if you agree with our proposition as follows;
(i)25% to the account owner(you).
(ii)65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii)10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both you and us) incidental to the actualization of this
project.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in foreign stock markets and other viable
business till we are ready and able to have access to them without raising any eyebrows here at home.
Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and risk-free.
We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14)banking days from the date of receipt of the
following information through the ifax number stated above:Your company's name,address,telephone and
fax numbers we will use your company’s name to apply for the payment and backdate the award of the
contract in favour of your company. We are looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we
solicit for your utmost confidentiality in this transaction.
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear from you.Please get intouch
through my telephone 00234 80 324 80515 or IFAX # 0015016356881.
Best regards,
JOHN DAUDA
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