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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: "Kelvin Matthews" <kelvinmatthewss@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kelvinmatthews@i12.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 14:31:50 +0000
Subject: Lets do this together
Dear Friend
After due deliberation with my colleagues, I decided to forward this
proposal. We want a reliable person who could assist us to transfer the sum
of Thirty Million United States Dollars (US$30,000,000.00) into his account.
This fund resulted from an over-invoiced bill from contract awarded by us
under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for
payment by the concerned ministries. The contract has been executed,
commissioned and the contractor was paid the actual cost of the contract. We
are left with the balance of US$30,000,000.00 as part of the over-invoiced
amount, which we have deliberately over estimated, for our own; I am
contacting you to be our custodian for this fund.
1. 20% for you (Account Owner)
2. 70% for us
3. 10% for Tax that might be required by our Government and yours.
As you may want to know and to make you less curious, I got your address
from adverts, in business directory that portrayed your establishment in
good light. I am the Secretary of the Contract Awarding Committee (CAC) of
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This transaction is very
much free from all sorts of RISK and TROUBLE from my Government.
We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for so long and to
most of us this is a lifetime opportunity we cannot afford to miss. To get
this fund paid into your account, we have to present a Payment Invoice from
a foreign establishment like yours. With this invoice, we will seek approval
to transfer the fund within 14 banking days through the APEX BANK to your
designated Bank Account.
My colleague and I involved in this deal will come to your country to
arrange for our share upon the confirmation from you that the money has been
credited into your nominated Bank Account. It will surprise you why we
choose you and trusted you for this transaction. Yes, we believe that good
friends can be discovered and business like this cannot be realized without
trust. This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction. We are
looking forward to doing this transaction with you.
Be further informed that everyone's interest and security had been
considered before you were contacted. So be rest assured and feel free to go
into this transaction with us. But let honesty be our watchword throughout
this transaction and your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards,
Kelvin Matthews
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