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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: "NNPC NIGERIA" <segunlucas@nnpc-organization.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:12:35 +0000
Subject: Hello
Dear Partner,
REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP---STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
First, 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. Segun Lucas,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 Port Harcourt. During this process my colleagues
and I decided amongst ourselves to deliberately 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 off setting 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 is 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 to Fourteen Bank working days from the
date of receipt of the necessary information and requirement from you.
Please, acknowledge this email for expediency and prompt delivery. 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 current payment/ financial quarter.
Thank you and God bless.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Segun Lucas.
N.B.: Please, be reminded that this business transaction is 100% legal and
risk free. Please, for expediency, respond to me via the following email
address; selucas10102@yahoo.com.
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