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Fraud email example:
From: "patrick tom" <patricktom3@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:46:33 +0100
Subject: OVER DUE CONTRACT PAYMENT.
FROM:CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN)
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL
REMMITANCY/ TELEX DEPARTMENT.
($10.5 MILLION FUND)
GOOD DAY,
RE: LETTER OF ENQUIRY ON CONTRACT PAYMENT. WE WRITE TO
ENQUIRE FROM YOU IF YOU HAVE SENT SOMEBODY FROM SWITZERLAND
MR SCHEMIRLT AND SOME NIGERIA REPRESENTATIVE TO THE CENTRAL
BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) TO MAKE CLAIM ON YOUR BEHALF.TODAY AT
ABOUT 10.00 AM NIGERIA TIME,
MR SCHEMIRLAT AND YOUR NIGERIAN REPRESENTATIVE CAME TO THE
BANK SAYING THAT YOU HAVE SENT THEM TO MAKE CLAIM ON YOUR
BEHALF ON YOUR CONTRACT FUNDS. I INITIALLY INSTRUCTED FOR
THE RELEASE OF THE FUND TO THEM AS THEY CAME WITH ALL
OBLIGATORY DOCUMENTS,
BUT ON CROSS CHECKING YOUR CONTRACT FILE, I ISCOVERED
THAT THE BANK ACCOUNT NUMBER THEY PRESENTED WAS DIFFERENT
FROM YOUR OWN BANK ACCOUNT AND THE BENEFICARY OF THE
ACCOUNT THE BROUGHT IS CHANGORI AND CHANGORI THAT'S MAKE US
TO SUSPECT THEM,
THIS IS A SERIOUS MATTER IN THE BANK NOW AND WE HAVE GIVEN
A MANDATE TO RELEASE THIS FUND TO YOU BY THE PRESIDENCY.
NOW WE HAVE REQUESTED THEM TO FORWARD A POWER OF ATTORNEY
FROM YOU,
INFORMING THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN) OF THE CHANGE
IN ACCOUNT NUMBER. THIS THEY COULD NOT PRODUCE IMMEDIATELY.
I HAVE ASKED THEM TO COME BACK IN TWO DAYS TIME,
THIS IS TO ENABLE US CONTACT YOU AND VERIFY HOW GENUINE
THESE TWO PEOPLE ARE TO YOU,
THOUGH THEY PROMISED TO PRODUCE THE POWER OF ATTORNEY ON
THEIR NEXT VISIT TO THE BANK.
I HAVE DEEMED IT NECESSARY TO CONTACT YOU AND ASCERTAIN THE
TRUE POSITION IN OTHER TO AVOID REMITTING THESE FUNDS INTO
A WRONG ACCOUNT.
COULD YOU PLEASE CONTACT THE UNDERSIGNED THROUGH THE mail,
TO CONFIRM MATTERS BEFORE WE START TAKING LEGAL ACTION,
BUT IF THEY ARE FROM YOU,
KINDLY GIVE THEM THE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR THE PAYMENT OF
THE CONTRACT FUNDS INTO THE SWITZERLAND
ACCOUNT UBS AG BANKING SWITZERLAND.
YOU SHOULD NOTE THAT BY THE AUTHORITIES OF THE PRESIDENCY,
AND IN LINE WITH THE ENABLING DECREE OF 512 ?A? IN
CONSULTATION WITH THE RELEVANT BODIES;
THE CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN), THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC
INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (NEIC) AND THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF
FINANCE (FMF), WE HAVE RESOLVED THAT ALL OVERDUE CONTRACT
PAYMENTS BE RELEASED THIS QUARTER IN ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE TO
THE I.M.F AND WORLD BANK MANDATORY CONDITIONALITIES OF
SERVICE TO OUR FOREIGN CAPITAL DEBTS. BASED ON THIS,
THIS OFFICE HAS BEEN MANDATED BY THE PRESIDENCY TO HANDLE
ALL PAYMENTS DUE TO FOREIGN CONTRACTORS. YOU SHOULD
THEREFORE DISREGARD ANY CORRESPONDENCE THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR
MAY COME TO YOU FROM ANY OTHER DEPARTMENT.
PLEASE ASSIST US TO EXPEDITE ACTION AND CONTACT ME
IMMEDIATELY YOU RECEIVE THIS E:MAIL NOW. I AM IN THE OFFICE
WAITING FOR YOUR MAIL,
ANTICIPATING YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE AND CO-OPERATION.
FOR: CENTRAL BANK OF NIGERIA (CBN).
YOU CAN REACH ME ON MY ALTERNATIVE EMAIL;patricktom1000@yahoo.com
PATRICK TOM
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