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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: "yakubu gambo" <yakubu_gambo@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: yakubu_gambo@myway.com
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 11:58:34 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Engr.YAKUBU GAMBO.
Managing Director
Gulf Bank Nigeria Plc.,
44, Broad Street,
Lagos, Nigeria
E-mail: yakubu_gambo@myway.com
Attn: Managine Director / CEO
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL OF 25.3 MILLION U.S.
DOLLARS
I am Engr.YAKUBU GAMBO. the managing director of Gulf Bank Of
Nigeria Plc, the banker to the late head of state of
Nigeria who died on June 8th 1998 under mysterious
circumstance.
I got your contact through commercial department of
your country's embassy in my search for a reliable and
trustworthily person to handle this top-secret
transaction. You must therefore keep this transaction
a VERY TOP SECRET.
THE SOURCE OF THE FUND
The late dictator General Sanni Abacha deposited the
sum of $825.3 million U.S. Dollars in his private
account means which I am the managing director, but
with serious conferment in me that I would never
reveal this toanybody apart from his wife Mrs. Maryam
Abacha, which he go as an over invoice from the
Ajaokuta Steel Mill the proposal largest steel Mill in
African continent.
The contact was awarded to a Russian firm, but after
his mysterious death, the new military government that
emerged then set-up a commission of enquiries into all
contacts awarded by the late dictator, but could not
complete their mission due to the emergence of a
democratic government headed by Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo as the president of the Federal Republic of
Nigeria, who vowed to continue with the predecessor
commitment by setting up commission of enquiries to
track down the account of the late dictator both in
Nigeria
and overseas, through different ways by media and
other means.
In this cause I have declared $800 million United
states Dollars to the Federal Government of Nigeria as
the family have no knowledge of the total amount
deposited in my bank.While I have transferred the
balance of $25.3 million U.S. Dollars to a subsidiary
of Gulf Bank Plc. With the knowledge of three senior
officers of the bank. But we cannot lay claims to this
found due to our position in the bank.
We therefore solicit your assistance in transferring
this amount to your private or company account, as
this transaction is risk free with our involvement.
We thereby agreed to compensate you with 25% of the
total sum while 75% would be shared among us, the
officials. The said amount was transferred to SECURITY
VAULT & FINANCE COMPANY IN ABROAD through diplomatic
immunities granted to banks in Nigeria and coded for
security reasons to avoid a re-occurrence of a past
incident in London in which 1.6 Billion Pounds
Sterling belonging to the late dictator was siezed.
If you have any positive response toward my proposal,
please contact me without delay.
I look forward to your earliest response.
BestRegards
Engr.YAKUBU GAMBO.
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