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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: "Ibrahim Dangote" <ibrahimdangote03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ibrahimdangote3@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:57:37 +0000
Subject: Dr.IBRAHIM DANGOTE
Dr.IBRAHIM DANGOTE
FROM THE DESK OF
ACCOUNTS DEPT.OF (PTF)
PLOT 34/40 AMADU BELLO WAY
V.I NG
CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
DEAR SIR
I am Dr.IBRAHIM DANGOTE of the Accounts Department of Petroleum (Special)
Trust Fund (PTF), an institution established by the Federal Government of
Nigeria to manage the proceeds from the sale of Petroleum products as well
as the application of the funds in contract execution. My colleagues and I
are inclined to contact you in view of a high-level business (deal) that we
want to strike with you.
It is quite natural to be surprised when somebody you do not know before
contacts you, especially when it comes to a business of this type. The
choice of picking you for the deal is based on satisfactory enquiries and
reports that we gathered about your person. The source of our information
shall be disclosed to you in the course of this transaction. The deal stems
from an over-valued invoice of a contract executed in our institution, PTF
for the upgrading of facilities at the Kaduna refineries.
The actual contract value was USD$40.5 Million but at the point of approval,
it was deliberately inflated to USD$60.8 Million, which was approved as
such. The contract has since been executed and the original German
contractor, has been paid the actual contract value of USD$40.5 Million
which is the only money due to him, leaving the over-valued sum of USD$20.3
Million still hanging in our system unclaimed.
This is the deal and this is where we want you to come in. As employees
within the system, we have since perfected arrangement through which the
fund (USD$20.3 Million) can be transferred out. However, the only way this
can be done successfully is with the collaboration of an oversea partner.
It has to be so because since it is a foreign denominated contract the
destination of the fund must be an oversea account, to avoid any suspicion
of any sort. Thus, the only condition under which the deal will be
prosecuted is for it to be kept in absolute secrecy and confidentiality.
I just hope that you will give me this all-important guarantee; otherwise
there will be no need to start in the first place. If this secrecy can be
kept by you, I require you to provide us with the following information to
enable us obtain necessary approvals and authorizations for the transfer of
the fund.
1. Your private telephone and fax numbers that will be used to facilitate
the transaction. Since it is a deal, we intend all the parties involved to
have commensurate share of the fund when it gets to your account. While the
sharing pattern cannot be reached now, it is our hope that it is something
that would be finally agreed upon as we get started. For now we propose as
follows:
1. The Nigerian group 60%
2. Account owner (Yourself) 30%
3. Contingencies 10% Contingencies in this context are defined as any cost
that any of the parties may incur in the course of the transaction; viz: Air
tickets, accommodation, bills etc.
In conclusion, as we go on in the transaction, you will also have to advise
us on the type of investment in your country that we could put our own share
into, as we do not intend to bring back our entire share to our country.
Your early response will be highly appreciated.
YOUR,S SINCERELY,
Dr.IBRAHIM DANGOTE.
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