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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: "philip hart" <sweepstakeonline@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:21:33 +0100
Subject: Contract Award And Implementation Committee ( From Engr.ibrahim usman)
FROM THE DESK OF ENGR IBRAHIM USMAN ALI
CHAIRMAN, CONTRACT AWARD AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE
POWER HOLDINGS COMPANY OF NIGERIA PLC (PHCN)
DIRECT TEL: +234-1-775 83 84
www.nepanigeria.org
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$8.5M
Dear Sir/Madam,
Although, I have not prior to this letter had any
formal contact
or communication with you, however, your contact was
personally
sourced by me in my quest for a reliable company,
Investor,
Businessman, or partner to assist with an urgent
business deal
requiring utmost trust and confidentiality. I know my
medium of
contact might make you apprehensive owing to the spate
of
internet scams going round. But I want to assure you
that this is
not one of such.
I am Engr Ibrahim Usman, Chairman, Contract Award and
Implementation Committee in the Power Holdings Company
of Nigeria
Plc (PHCN), formally, National Electric Power
Authority (NEPA).
My duty includes ,awards of contracts, vetting same
and making
payments on behalf of my Company (PHCN) alongside the
Chief
Accountants and Directors of Audit and I have Engr.
Kefi Mohammed
as my Vice Chairman
SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed
to
privately invest extensively in your country. I am
intending to
resign from Government services to private business
with some
other officials of my Corporation involved in this
deal as
partners. I have specifically been mandated to arrange
with you
for terms of trade and possible transfer of the funds
needed for
the investment into your company?s or personal
account.
SOURCE OF FUND: This fund was incurred from an over
invoiced
contract awarded to an American firm in the year, 2004
for the
supply of Power Transformers and High Tension Cables
for Rural
Electrification Projects in the Niger Delta
Communities of Nigeria. The original value of this
contract was purposely over estimated by us the
Tenders Board Committee to the tune of US$8.5M (Eight
million,
Five hundred thousand US Dollars only). Now that the
Original
firm that executed the contract has received its
payment fully,
we now want to transfer the over invoiced sum to your
company?s
or Personal account and privately invest in any
profitable form
of business. The US$8.5M has since been approved for
payment/remittance among other payments that have been
made. This
money is now floating in the Country?s Apex Bank, as a
redundant
fund waiting to be claimed. Because of our Federal
Government's
new law on Civil Service, Civil Servants are
prohibited by the
Code of Conduct bureau from owning or operating
foreign bank
accounts, hence, I solicit your help to remit this
fund into your
company's or private account pending when we come over
for the
sharing.
To enable us process and remit this fund into your
bank account
successfully within 10 banking days from the day of
your
response, we need the following information from you
by a return
e-mail:
(1) BENEFICIARY'S NAME:
(2) YOUR ADDRESS:
(3) YOUR CONFIDENTIAL TEL/FAX:
(4) AGE/SEX:
Your account details shall be required when it is due
for the
fund to be transfered.
Note that as soon as we receive this information, they
will be
used to prepare Documents to facilitate the final
processing and
subsequent remittance of the fund to your nominated
Bank account.
With this modality, it makes it possible for you to
act as a
sub-contractor to the original firm that executed the
Contract
This transaction is 100% risk-free having done all the
underground works locally for the smooth transfer of
the fund
into your bank account within the shortest period. I
advise that
you keep this business a top secret and rest all
correspondences
to E-mail and phone only because I am occupying a
sensitive
position in the government circle and also this is
once in a life
time opportunity.
Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on
my
structions and that our own share of the money will be
safe. We
have jointly agreed to reward you with 10% of the
total sum for
your honest assistance and co-operation while 85% will
be for my
colleagues and me. And the remaining 5% will be mapped
out for
settling all expenses (local and foreign) incurred in
the course
of this transaction
Please, do indicate your interest via the email as
given below.
Best Regards
Engr. Ibrahim Usman
Email:ibrahim_usman_ali@walla.com
NOTE: If however, you are not disposed to assist,
kindly
delete/destroy this email in view of the
confidentiality of the
proposed transaction and interest of personalities
involved.
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