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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: "williams oje" <ojewill@msn.com>
Reply-To: oje_will@excite.com
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:03:03 +0000
Subject: TRUSTED PATNER NEEDED,
Dear Friend,
First, I must apologise to you for using this medium to communicate to you
about this project.
I am a highly placed official of Government of Nigeria and also a founding
member ofthe ruling party in Power now,the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
My committee - The Niger Delta Development Corporation(NDDC)-which is in
charge of managing and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues
for the Nigerian government which covers payment to foreign and local
contractors who has executed contracts for our country.The revenues under
our control runs into several hundred ofmillions of dollars monthly.My self
and other colleagues in the NDDC are currently in need of a foreign partner
with whose bank account we shall transfer the sum of Forty Nine Million Five
Hundred Thosand United States
Dollars($49.5m).This fund was accrued from various over invoicing of foreign
contractors payments made over the years. The Total fund is presently
waiting in the Government Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account
number 400939134 with J.P.MORGAN CHASE BANK,New York.You can do your
independent verification of this. However, by virtue of our position as
civil servants and members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this funds in our
name. This is because as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law of
the land to own or operate bank accounts outside our country for now.
I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues,to look for an
overseas partner in whose account we would transfer the fund Hence the
reason for this mail.We shall be Transferring the money to your account with
your company as the beneficiary and you are been paid for a contract which
you executed for our country through the NDDC and any other Federal Ministry
that we decide to use to siphon the funds through. For your support and
partnership,please reply me to negotiate your fees or the percentage you
wish to be paid when the funds arrive your bank account. You must however
note that this transaction, with regards to our disposition to continue with
you, is subject to these terms. Firstly, our conviction of your
transparency. Secondly, that you treat this transaction with utmost
secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and above all, that you will provide an
account that you have absolute control over. The transaction, although
discrete, is legitimate and there is no risk or legal disadvantages either
to ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we have put in place
perfect mchineries that will ensure a hitch free transfer into your account
upon acceptance. The transfer will be effected to your account within
ten-fourteen (10-14
working days as soon as we reach an agreement and you furnish me with a
suitable bank account and company name andaddress with all your contact
numbers including fax number.
I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction,
Please mail your response to me.
Yours faithfully,
Williams Oje.
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