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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: friday okefor <des_2win@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 18:45:44 -0800 (PST)
Subject: business poposal
Dear Sir,
REQUEST FOR URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
After due deliberation with my colleagues, I decided to forward this
proposal. We want a reliable person who could us to transfer the
sum of Thirty Million United States Dollars (US$30,000,000.00) into
his/her account.
This fund resulted from an over-invoced bill from contract awarded by
us under the budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved
for payment by the concerned ministries. The contract has been
executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid the actual cost of
the
contract. we are left with the balance of US$30,000,000.00 as part of
the
over-invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated, for
our
own I am contacting you to be
our custodian for this fund.
1. 20% for you (Account Owner)
2. 70% for us
3. 10% for Tax, as may required by our Government and yours.
As you may want to know and to make you less curious,I got your address
from adverts, in business directory that protrayed your establishment
in good light. I am the Secretary of the Contract Awarding Committee
(CAC)of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). This
transaction is very much free from all sorts of RISK and TROUBLE from
my
Government. We have been exercising patience for this opportunity for
so long
and to most of us this is a life time opportunity we cannot affford to
miss. To get this fund paid into your account, we have to present a
Payment Invoice from a foreign establishment like yours. With this
invoice, we will seek approval to transfer the fund within 14 banking
days
through the APEX BANK to your designatd Bank Account.
I and one of my colleague involved in this deal will come to your
country to arrange for our share upon the confirmation from you that
the
money has been credited into your nominated Bank Account. Consequently
upon your acceptance of my proposal,kindly co nfirm your interest by
revert mail to the above e/mail address It will surprise you why we
choose
you and trusted you for this transaction. Yes, we believe that good
friends can be discovered and business like this cannot be realized
without
trust. This is why we have decided to trust you for this transaction.
we are looking forward to doing this transaction with you.
Be further informed that everyone's interest and security had been
considered before you were
contacted. So be rest assured and feel free to go into this transaction
with us. But let honesty be our watch word throughout this transaction
and your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards,
MR FRIDAY O.
NOTE ON ACCEPTANCES OF THIS PURPOSAL LET ME HAVE YOUR PHONE AND FAX
NUMBER IMMEDIATELY TO ENABLE US HAVE ORAL DISCUSSION.
THANK YOU!
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