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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: "Rob Mensah" <rob_mensah225@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:29:45 +0000
Subject: Business Proposal
FROM THE DESK OF DR ROBERT MENSAH
CHAIRMAN ECOWAS CONTRACT AWARDING COMMITTEE
ECOWAS FUND HEADQUARTERS
P.M.B.5028
ACCRA-REPUBLIC OF GHANA
ALTERNATIVE EMAIL: mensah69@yahoo.es
ACCOUNT PROVISION FOR USD45.5 MILLION
I am Dr. Robert Mensah. The chairman,
Contract-Awarding Committee of the Economic Community of West African states
(ECOWAS) with its fund headquarters in Accra Ghana. I got your information
in a professional database when I was searching through Internet for a
reliable, honest and trustworthy person to entrust this business with. I was
simply inspired and motivated to pick your contact from the many names
in the list of the directory. After discussing my view and your profile with
my colleagues, they were very much satisfied and decided to contact you
immediately for this mutual business relationship. We wish to transfer the
sum of USD 45.5,000,000.00 (FORTY FIVE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND UNITED
STATES DOLLARS ONLY.) Into your personal or company’s bank account.
This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by us
intentionally for the supply of hard/soft wares, pharmaceuticals/ medical
items, light and heavy duty vehicles, apparels and other
administrative/logistics for the ECOMOG in Sierra-Leone and Liberia during
the peace keepingprojects. This deal was deliberately hatched out and
carefully protected with the cooperation and mandate of the financial
director and the secretary of the organization. We arranged and over
invoiced the
contract funds supplied by different companies from different countries
during the crisis. It was our consensus to seek the assistance of a willing
foreigner to provide us with the facilities to transfer this money out of
West Africa.
This is borne out of our belief in the non-stable and porous political
nature of this sub-region. The original contractors have been duly paid by
ECOWAS
banker through the central bank of Ghana and finance ministry. The balance
is suspended in the ECOWAS grand account awaiting claims by any foreign
partner of our choice to receive the fund on our behalf now ECOWAS is
intending to pay all their outstanding balance of their contractors this
year as the organization is winding up its activities since the aim of
returning
peace to the countries and the coast has been achieved.
Based on the laws and ethics of employment, we as civil servants working
under this organization, are not allowed to operate/own a foreign account.
This is more reason why we needed your urgent assistance to
provide an account that can sustain this fund for safe keeping and our
future investment with your comprehensive advise, assistance and partnership
in
your country. It is however agreed, as the account owner in this deal to
allow you 30% of the entire sum as compensation, 65% will be held on trust
for us
while 5% will be used to defray any incidental charges and cost during the
course of the transaction. This transaction will be successfully concluded
within 14 days if you accord us your unalloyed and due cooperation.
You should provide the followings for immediate kickoff of this deal if it
interests you; your company’s names with complete address, tel. and fax
numbers. (If available) the NAME OF YOUR BANK, ITS ADDRESS WITH TEL., FAX
AND TELEX NUMBERS, THE ACCOUNT NUMBER THE COMPLETE MAILING ADDRESS OF THE
BENEFICIARY WITH TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBERS.
Upon the receipt of this information, application for claim will be sent to
you to fill and return back to the organization in pursuit of the claim
legally and
then be forwarded to the organization for ratification and subsequent
payment. As with the case of all organized (sensitive) and conspired deals,
we solicit
for your unreserved confidentiality and utmost secret in this business. We
hope to retire peacefully and lead honorable business life afterwards. There
are no risks involved.
Kindly expedite action if you are interested as we are behind schedule to
enable us utilize this golden opportunity pay out this fund immediately
which we might stand to loose, if we fail to provide a safe account for this
transfer on time at the expiration of this year ECOWAS has mapped out for
payment of all their outstanding contractors and the dissolution of our
committee. Please urgency is needed as we do not know the time our
organization will start the payment hence it is necessary to start on time
to forestall any hitch while transferring the fund into your designated
account.
Hoping to hear from you.
With regards.
Dr. Robert Mensah
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