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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: dominic mooris <doms_mooris@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 03:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: I NEED YOUR ASSISTANT ON THIS PROJECT.
ATTN: SIR
FROM :DR.DOMINIC MOORIS ABBA
doms_mooris@yahoo.com
3RD AVENUE, BLOCK 4
PALM EASTATE
LAGOS NIGERIA
REQUEST FOR URGENT &CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP FOR THE TRANSFER OF $70 ,000,000.00 FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA THROUGH NNPC ACCOUNT
I presume this letter will not be of a surprise to you, since we have not met before. Your contact address came to me through a friend of mine, who is a member assisting with trade development commission of your embassy here in Nigeria. Truly he always says good about you in terms of business network services, but I never tell him about this request.
I am Dr.DOMINIC MOORIS ABBA, an employee of the federal government of Nigeria owned corporation, Nigeria national petroleum corporation (NNPC).
Few years ago, the federal government of Nigeria instructed the corporation (NNPC) to award contract on behalf of the government for the building of a refinery in the northern part of Nigeria. In respect of this I and three of my co-employees of the corporation was appointed as the contract awarding committee, to deliberate on the best foreign companies to handle the project. And after much deliberation within members of the committee, the contract was awarded to salen drilling Ag of Austria.
But before awarding this contract, we the members of the committee has secretly agreed to over-invoice and inflate the actual contract value with the tune of US$ 70 ,000,000.00 (SEVENTY MILLION DOLLARS) which we shall use a reliable foreign company to claim.
Meanwhile, the contract has been completed and commissioned, the actual contract value has been paid to the contractor that executed the contract, leaving this over-invoiced sum of US$100 million dollars. Now we have decided to choose your company to claim this money, we will present your company as a contractor that supplied electrical equipment?s, paints and all the coatings used in the refinery.
Your company will be front to get all the necessary approvals and formalities that will justifies you as the actual beneficiary from the concerned government ministries before the fund will be transferred
into your bank account. We will sub-contract the project to you and get your company name enlisted in the government contract award blue print, and you will be recognized as a legitimate contractor and beneficiary of this US$ 100m dollars. This we will do with some documents and information?s we will require from you.
Be informed that you are going to help us financially, in other to enable us secure all the necessary documents that will back you up as a legitimate contractor that executed a contract here. Please put this matter into consideration, YOU WILL HELP US FINANCIALLY,IN THE AREA OF OBTAINING THESE DOCUMENTS.
On your acceptance to take up this project and meet up with all that will be required from you towards the processing of the proposals of this remittance from one ministry to the other, we have jointly agreed to share the funds as follows:
You will retain 30% of the total sum transferred into your account, for your contribution towards the success of this transaction. 10% will be set aside for deduction of all the expenses that will be encountered by you and us during the cause of processing the necessary approvals from the government
ministries for the transfer of the funds into your account. While 60% will be given to us on arrival in your country, which we hope to use part of it to import goods from your country.
Please bear in mind that this transaction is 100% risk free, as we have done our homework accordingly. We shall commence the transfer immediately we hear from you, be informed that time is very important in this transaction.
Can we take up this project together, kindly ask for more details by contacting us through this email address: hen_acct_cbn@yahoo., but let truthfulness and confidentiality be our watch word.
Best regards
Dr. DOMINIC MOORIS ABBA.
LET US WORK WITH TRUST (.FUND TRANSFER)
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