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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: "Mr.Peter Dester RodrXguez" <peterdesterrod5@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:43:05 +0000
Subject: Contract business from Venezuela.

From:Mr.Peter Dester Rodríguez.
Ministery of Energy and petroleum .
Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)
phone:0058412785670

Attn: President/Ceo.



I know this email will reach you as a surprise,but need not to worry as we
are using the only
secured and confidential medium available to seek for foreign
assistance/partnership in a
business transaction which is of mutual benefit.

I am a member of the Government of Venezuela Contract Award and Monitoring
Committee in the
ministry of Energy and Petroleum.Petroquímica de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA).
Sometime ago,a contract was awarded to a foriegn firm in (PDVSA) by my
committe.
This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M US DOLLARS. (Twenty
five thousand us dollar)

PDVSA Carbozulia is in charge of developing and commercializing the oil
explorations in venezuela
the allocated 17 out of 20 oil wells at a cost of more than US$2.Bn
USDOLLARS (two billion us dollars).
Those contracts was awarded to various companies. This scheme involves at
least
ten exploratory areas: La Ceiba (Trujillo, Mérida, Zulia), Golfo de
Paria-East and West area
(Sucre), Guarapiche (Monagas), Guanare (Portuguesa), San Carlos (Cojedes),
El Sombrero (Guárico),
Catatumbo (Zulia), Punta Pescador and Delta Centro (Delta Amacuro). Among
others, Mobil, Enron,
Amoco, Elf and Conoco are operating in the area. coal mines in Guasare,
Zulia State, where the
largest reserve of the mineral is located.
This was done deliberately,the over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to
benefit from the

project. We now want to transfer this money which is in a suspense Account
with (PDVSA) into your
Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us. SHARE: - For
providing the account where
we shall remit the money into,you will be entitled to 20% of the money,70%
will be for me and my

partners while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any
upfront or out of pocket
expenses that may be incurred by all parties during the course of this
transfer,both locally and

international expenses.In order for us to commence the transaction i would
require the following:

1.Your company's name,address,telephone and fax numbers.
2.Your bank name,address and account details.(May an account with zero
balance)
The above information would be use to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure for the
release of the money and onward transfer to your account.It does not matter
whether or not your
company does contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption
is that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it to other
companies.
More often than not,big trading companies or firms of unrelated fileds win
major contract and subcontract to more specialized firms for execution of
such contract.

We have strong reliable connections and contacts at the BANCO CENTRAL DE
VENEZUELA,as well some personels from the ministry of finance will work
together with us in this deal.

Therefore, when the business is successfully concluded we shall through
our same connections to retrive all the documents used from all the
concerned Government ministries for distructions.
The Minister of Energy and Petroleum and CEO of PDVSA, Mr Rafael Ramírez
Carreño,is my inlaw.I
have a good connectionj in the ministry in of great.
We are ordinary VENEZUELA Government workers and we will not want to miss
this once in a lifetime

opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to the
overseas Accounts at this

moment. contact me immediately through my email addresses for more
information.

I wait in anticipation to receive your response.

Yours faithfully,

Mr.Peter Dester Rodríguez.
phone: 0058412785670

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