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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: "Theresa Ahmed" <theresahmd@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:28:26 -0500
Subject: TRUST INVESTMENTS
FINACORP VENTURES LIMITED.
SUITE 2B,RAINBOW CRESCENT
BROAD STREET,
VICTORIA-ISLAND.
LAGOS.
I am the CEO of the above mentioned company, I also recently retired as the
director of finance of the Federal Ministry Of Power & Steel (FMP&S). During
my tenure, I was in charge of the federal tenders board. The job of the
federal tenders board was to access bids made to the FMP&S by foreign and
local contractors for execution of contracts and recommend to the government
which contractors are eligible for award. In the course of our work at the
federal tenders board, we recieved a bid of (USD46.8M) from AV Engineering
company from the Czech Republic for the refurbishing of the six thermal flow
stations and the supply of 33 KV sub-stations for the river-rine areas of
the country.
The bid was unsually low for the contract in question considering the other
bids we had gone through. We then invited them for an appraisal of their
bid. From their appraisal, it was clear that the contract could be executed
by them based on their bid. We the three members of the tenders board agreed
to recommend them for the award of the contract only if they increase thier
bid to USD60M. The balance USD13.2M was to be paid to us after the execution
of the contract for us. Not trusting the contractors to live up to their own
part of the bargain, we established the above mentioned company (we the
members of the federal tenders board are directors of the company )and had
them sub-contract the USD13.2M to the company as a sub-contract of the
original contract. The deed of sub-contract has been duly registered with
the registrar of deeds at the federal high court of justice and copies
circulated to the FMP&S, federal ministry of finance (FMF) and the central
bank of Nigeria (CBN).AV Engineering has executed the whole contract and
have been duly paid off, leaving the balance USD13.2M. Considering the
amount of the fund involved we cannot ask the CBN to pay directly into our
local bank account as the bank regulatory bodies will want to know the
directors of the company.
Though I am retired, my other two partners are still under government
employ, also taking into consideration the strict foreign currency laws of
my country that does not encourage capital flight and the inherent
instability of my country's polity. It is unwise to leave such a hugh amount
lying dormant. I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my
partners to source for a business partner to whom we could transfer the sum
of USD13.2M by drawing up a letter of domiciliation instructing the
concerned government parastatals i.e the FMP&S, FMF and CBN to pay into the
partner's account the contractual entitlement of USD13.2M. You will agree
with me that a letter of domiciliation is an accepted form of doing
business.
Should this transaction interest you, you are to contact me on my personal
e-mail address, so that I can brief you fully and discuss your renumeration
for this undertaking. All logistics are in place and all modalities worked
out for the smooth conclusion of the transaction within the shortest
possible time.
At this juncture I'll like to inform you that a legally binding contract
will be entered by all parties involved, this is to safeguard our mutual
interests.
I await your urgent response.
Yours Faithfuly,
Mrs Theresa Ahmed
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