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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: "Cliff Benson" <cliben40@msn.com>
Reply-To: cben300@walla.com
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 01:01:38 +0000
Subject: URGENT AMD CONFIDENTIAL
Cliff Benson Okoh
9, Akinbola Street,
Ilupeju, Lagos.
Nigeria.
TEL: +234-8055964386.
Email- cliffben@mmail.com
Dear Friend,
I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of good
health and success in your pursuits particularly through my
proposal as contained in this letter. Before going into
details of my proposal to you, I must first implore you to
treat with the utmost confidentiality as this is required for
its success and to have faith in this transaction,for
opportunities like this only comes to one once in a life time.
My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal
Government of my country's Contracts Review Panel (CRP) who
are interested in diverting some funds that are presently
floating in the accounts of the Apex Bank of my country.In
order to commence this transaction, we solicit for your
assistance to enable us transfer into your nominated account
the said floating funds. We are determined to conclude the
transfer before the end of this quarter of 2005.
The source of the funds are as follows:During the last
military regime in my country, government officials set up
companies and awarded themselves contracts that were grossly
over-invoiced in various ministries and parastatals.The
present civilian government set up the Contract Review
Panel, which has the mandate to use the instruments of
payments made available to it by the decree setting up the
panel, to review these contracts and if necessary pay those
who are being owed outstanding amounts.
My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of these
funds which are presently floating in our (Apex) Central Bank
ready for disbursement and would like to divert some of it for
our own purposes. However,by virtue of our positions as civil
servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire these
funds in our names or in the names of companies that
are based in my country.I have therefore been mandated,as a
matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel,to look for a
reliable overseas partner into whose account we can transfer
the sum of U.S.$28,500,000.00 (Twenty-Eight Million, Five
Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars).That is why I am seeking your
assistance. We have agreed to share the money to be
transferred into your account, if you agree with our
proposition as follows;
(i)25% to the account owner(you).
(ii)65% for us (the panel officials).
(iii)10% to be used in settling all expenses (by both you and
us)incidental to the actualization of this project.
We wish to invest our share of the proceeds of this project in
foreign stock markets and other viable business till we are
ready and able to have access to them without raising any
eyebrows here at home. Please note that this transaction is
100% safe and risk-free.
We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14)banking
days from the date of receipt of the following information
through my email address:Your company's name,address,telephone and fax
numbers we will use your company´s name to apply for the payment and
backdate the award of the contract in favour of your company. We are
looking forward to doing this transaction with you and we solicit for your
ultmost confidentiality in this transaction
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction when
I hear from you.
Best regards,
Cliff Benson Okoh
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