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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: "HASSAN EDIRIS" <hassan_ediris001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: hassan_ediris@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 11:59:13 -0600
Subject: RE:URGENT..........
HASSAN EDIRIS,
THENIGERIAN NATIONAL
PETROLIUM COPERATION (NNPC)
ABUJA NIGERIA.
EMAIL: (hassan_ediris@atlas.cz)ATTENTION: SIR/MADAM.
I am HASSAN EDIRIS, an accountant of the Nigerian National Petrolium
Coperation (NNPC). Be informed that my partners and I awarded a contract
to a Foreign Firm (SHENG YANG CONSTRUCTION COMPANY JAPAN WITH CONTRACT NO:NNPC/PED/1462/KADREF/2002) with TADAHIRO KITAMURA as Chief Executive Officer for the maintanance of the Nigerian Petroleium-Chemical Complex located at KADUNA, NIGERIA.The contract amount was US$98,000,000.00 (NINETY EIGHT MILLION
UNITEDSTATESDOLLARS ONLY) however, we over-invoiced the cost of the contract toUS$123,000,000.00.The original contractor has been paid in full for the contract have been executed,the US$98,000,000.00 which is now left is the top up sum US$25,000,000.00 (TWENTY -FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS ONLY). We as Goverment officials are not permitted to own or operate a foreign bank account.Therefore we need a reliable person who will provide us with a foreign
banking account where to transfer and deposit this sum US$25,000,000.00 and
this is the reason why I am solicitating your assistance to provide us with
an account to deposit this money. All modalities for the easy transfer of
this fund is now in place ,the period of this transaction is only two weeks
from the day we recieve your banking details .When this money gets to your
account ,we will meet face to face for the sharing arrangement.NOTE that some
of our share will be invested in your country .We propose to give you 30% of the U$25,000,000.00,while my partners and
I will get 70% of the money. Please send to me your the following
for speedy processing1,Your Full Bank Account Details
2,Your Full Companys‘s Name and Address
3,Your Private Phone and Fax Number All this
informations are needed for easy communications and will as well be used in securing the necessary documents for the easy transfer of this fund to your
account.Note : We carefully search for your name through the internet as the
beneficiary to this fund in the Contract Certificate already at hand, please if you
are not intrested in this proposal kindly delete this mail from your
mail box immediately and if you are interested mail me immediately .I expect your urgent response ..
HASSAN EDIRIS.
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