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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: "MR. ROBERT CLARE" <robertclare@gmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:09:26 -0700
Subject: YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE NEEDED
Hello Friend,
YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE NEEDED
My name is Robert Clare, I am a members of a special committee for budget and planning of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in West Africa. This committee is principally concerned with contract awards and approval. With my position, I have successfully secured for myself the sum of Fifty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States dollars (us$55.5m). This amount was carefully manipulated by my over-invoicing of some old contracts that was executed in the company.
I believe you would be in a position to help me in transferring this fund (US$55.5m) into a safe account. I have made up my mind to compensate you with a 30% of the remitted funds, while I keep 60% as the initiators and 10% will be set aside to offset expenses and pay the necessary taxes. I intend to use part of these funds to import from your country agricultural and construction machinery. This is because the present government of my country is emphasizing on providing food and housing for all its citizens before the next election. Hence, agricultural and construction equipment are in high demand over here. I shall also need your assistance in this regard on a commission to be agreed upon when we finally meet.
All modalities for this transaction have been carefully worked out and once started will not take more than seven (7) working days, with your full support. This transaction is 100% risk free.
Moreover, I shall need the following from you to enable me begin the transaction formally. This information will be used alongside other vital documents over here in preparing the necessary application for payment to the concerned quarters where payment approvals would be secured in favour of your company or your person for the payment of the fund (US$55.5m) into your nominated account for both of us.
By my application, it will be assumed that this sum is being requested as payment, which is long-outstanding, for a contract, I shall claim with my position, you or your company executed for (NNPC) sometime in 2002. Hence, we shall follow all the legal official protocols usually observed by foreign contractors whenever they are demanding payment for contracts executed for the government of my country.
Furthermore, immediately the final approval is granted, the fund will be transferred into your account within 72hours, by which time my partners and I will be in your country for the final disbursement in the ratio already spelt out to you above.
Please, you should endeavour to give me an account which you have absolute control over. This is very important because I would not want a situation when the money is in the account; you now tell me you would need to be authorized by another person before I can have my own share.
You will not be required to travel out of your country; I will travel down to your country for the disbursement of the fund, after the final transaction. I will also discuss about oil business in my country when I come over to meet you in your country, because I would like to establish business ventures in your country, and after that I would incorporate an oil company in my country in your name depending on what you decide to do with your own share of the money.
Besides, on the completion of this transfer, all documents used for the purpose will be withdrawn from the quarters they are submitted by our contacts in these offices and destroyed, thereafter. So, there will not be any problem arising from this transaction now or in the future. If this proposal is satisfactory to you, do not hesitate to reach me at this email address robertclare@gmail.com <mailto:robertclare@gmail.com> for more information.
Please, treat as urgent and very important.
Yours faithfully,
ROBERT CLARE
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