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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: "vincent larry" <vincent_larry@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 19:03:18 +0000
Subject: =?ascii?B?U1BBTT86ICBEZWFyIGZyaWVuZDs=?=
I am the chairman of the contract award committee of the National Petroleum
Corporation here in Nigeria, for security reasons, I may not wish to
disclose how I got your email address for now. After due deliberation with
my partner, I decided to forward to you this business proposal, we want you
to assist us receive the sum of Twenty eight million, six hundred thousand
united state bills(us28.6m) into your account. This fund resulted from an
over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the budget allocation to my
Ministry and the bill was approved for payment by the concerned ministries.
The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his
actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with the balance of us$28.6m
as the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for
our own use. Please note that the law forbids civil servants to operate or
own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the money
in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60 for us 10 for tax as may be
required by your government. Note that this transaction is very much free
from all sorts of risk hence the business was carefully planned before it
was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put
many years in service to our ministry. We have been exercising patience for
this privilege for so long not until the presidential announcement last
week, that all foreign contractors owed be paid forthwith, this will enable
the presidency reconcile our debt ratio with the outside world and to most
of us, this is a lifetime blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication
of your interest to fully co-operate with us, a payment
application/information form will be sent to you via email for completion.
Note that the following information: a) bankers name and address, b) account
number and account name and c) your private phone number and email address
will enable us seek/secure approval of the fund from the concerned
government quarters/ministries within 2-3 banking days. As soon as we
confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank account, my partner and
I will come over to your country to arrange for our own share and possibly
invest part of this money in your country. Let honesty and trust be our
watchword throughout this transaction. I shall furnish you with some details
about myself. Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Engr. VINCENT LARRY;
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