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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: "Dan Komen" <dankomen1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: williams_oke@myway.com
Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:28:27 -0400
Subject: INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Williams Oke
Email:-williams_oke@myway.com
Dear Friend,
I am pleased to write you this message through this means, please be
informed that I am a Private person (Project Manager) and a Local Investor
or
Businessman,we are Five Businessmen who are into a Joint Partnership here
and we
want to go into the Exporting of Crude Oil Abroad to ready Markets which are
available to us.
On this note we are Seeking for anyone whom we can Trust and that will
be Acting as our Foreign Partner because the Government here in our Country
in
Collaboration with the Ministry of Petroleum gave a strong Guideline
which must be met before an Exporting License can be granted,it is stated
that we
must have a Foreign Partner before the License can be given/granted.
Also we want to front you as our Partner if you are willing to Assist us, so
that we can
be Granted the Permission/License to go into that Venture ASAP. We will
start-up all the Necessary Documentations which will take about 3 days
with your Full Co-operation’s in this regards. Also be informed that, there
are
some Funds which my Colleagues (Shareholders) got as a result of a kick back
from
a Project they once Executed with a Foreign Firm on behalf of the Government
and
they want to Invest this Funds in this Deal, and they didn’t want the
Authorities
here to know that they are involved in Crude Oil Exportation and that is why
I
am the Project Manager of the Partnership.
It may interest you to know that we are serious in this Transaction, we are
going
to Front you as the Beneficiary of this Funds to the relevant Authorities
here,
thereby transferring to you the Rights & Priviledges of the Former Foreign
Firm
that Handled the Project; then you will be Assumed as the Beneficiary
of the outstanding Balance of US$10 Million and you are Entitled to 10% of
the
sum which is US$1 Million, which is Provided by my Colleagues for the
Purpose of
this Transaction and you are Required to send/Remit back to us the remaining
balance which will stand as a Proof to the Authorities here that Truly you
are
our Foreign Partner in this Partnership.
On this note, please you have to be Confidential about the Funds
because my colleagues are still in active service in their various
ministries were
the Funds originated from and they don’t want the authorities here to know
that,
they inflated the project sum initially which resulted to the US$10 Million
outstanding we want to remit into your Bank Account, which will be
used/invested on this Crude Oil Business. My dear friend this is a deal that
will
change our status in life and we don’t want anything to jeopardise this
transaction, so you have to be confidential about this deal, until we have
secure the
License for Exporting the Products to any ready and available Market/Buyers
that we
can Source for in the World.
Also on the issue of the Exportation of the Crude Oil, we are offering you
10% of
the Profit after Taxation of every Transaction we make at the end of
every 3 months through your Effects.On this note,what you are Required to do
for us so that we can Forge ahead in this Deal, is for you to Furnish me
with the
information Below so that we can get the Funds Transfered to you immediately
through any Corresponding Bank within 3-5 days ASAP, below are the
information’s Required;-
1) FULL NAMES
2) CONTACT ADDRESS
3) TEL & FAX NUMBERS
4) BANKING PARTICULARS
5) DRIVER'S LICENSE
With the above Details of yours I will Process some vital Documents that
will
enable the funds to be transfered to the Bank Account that you will
Provide for this Purpose, please if there is any Question you may want to
ask, be
free to Direct them to me ASAP.
Regards.
Williams Oke
(Project Manager)
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