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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: "gambo jimeta" <alhajigambojimeta@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:16:38 +0000
Subject: CONFIDENTIAL
Kind Attn;
BUSINESS PROPOSAL: TRANSFER OF US$15.6 M (FIFTEEN MILLION SIX HUNDRED
THOUSAND UNITED STATES DOLLARS) & BUSINESS INVESTMENTS PARTNERSHIP.
First,I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction,this is
by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential and top secret as you
were introduced to us in confidence through the Nigerian Chamber of
Commerce, Foreign Trade Division which provide databases of most current
listings of
potential individuals and foreign investors business contact,email addresses
and other important
information of countries overseas.
I am Alhaji Gambo Jimeta, the Secretary of the Federal government of Nigeria
Contract Award and Monitoring Committee (CAMC) of the Petroleum (Special)
Trust Development Fund (PTDF).
Sometime ago to be precise by late last year, several contracts were awarded
to a conglomerate of Foreign Companies by my committee on which i oversee on
behalf of PTDF, the contracts sum were over-invoiced in all the contracts
awarded and amounted to the tune of US $15.6 Million in total.
This was done deliberately, as the over-invoicing was a deal by members of
my committee to benefit from the project as we intend securing the future of
our lives after retirement which is near having put in long service in
Government.
We now desire to transfer the money,which is presently lying in a suspense
of the PTDF in a Correspondent Bank of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN)
into an overseas account which we expect
you to provide in assisting us.
We have unanimously agreed that the following funds will be shared thus
after it has been paid into your account;
a) 20% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
fund.
b) 10% has been set aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to
both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of
the transaction.
c) 70% to us the government officials (which we wish to commence an
important business in conjunction with you as you will be spear heading our
own share of this funds to invest in any worthy
investments in your
country or area of business when we come for sharing.
I Would Require viz:
a) Name and address of Company/ Beneficiary
b) Your personal fax and Telephone numbers .
The above information would be used to make formal applications as a matter
of procedure from the desiginitated Government paying
institutions/Government Ministries/Parastatals over here for the
release of the money and onward transfer to your nominated account.
It does not matter whether or not your company or you does contract projects
of this nature as described here, the assumption here is that you won a
major contract and subcontracted it out to
other companies.As more often than not, big trading companies or individuals
of unrelated field win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized
firms for execution of such contracts and thus we are confident that with
this fact in place ,the transaction will be successfuly executed without any
hitches whatsoever.
We have strong and reliable connections and strong contacts at the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other desiginitated Government paying
institutions/Government Ministries/Parastatals who are available and ready
to work with us in this and we have no doubts at all that
this money will be released and transferred if we get the necessary foreign
partners to assist us in this deal.
Therefore,when this business is successfully concluded we shall through
the same connections withdraw all documents used in
the execution of
this transaction from all the concerned government
ministries invovled
for 100% security.
We thus want this money to be transferred to the
foreign account which
you are going to provide bearing in mind that our
civil service code of
conduct forbids us from owning foreign company or
running foreign
account.
All expenses regarding the account opening if not
already in existence
shall be borne by you,though all expenses are however
reimbursable as
already stated above on conclusion of business.
Please acknowledge the receipt of this mail by getting
back to me in the earliest possible time.However,this
mtter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy
and urgency it deserves bearing in mind and
knowing fully well that we are still in active service
in Government
and have our untarnisahble good records in government
books to protect .
Please you should signify your intention to assist by
you sending me a
mail through this box or through my confidential email
box so that I can brief you
further with the
blue print details of the masterplan carefully
scrutinized and outlined
for this mutually beneficial transaction so as to give
this transaction all the legalities and security due
it for the transfer of the funds.
I wait in anticipation of your co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Alhaji Gambo Jimeta.
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