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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: "smith benson" <smith_benson@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005 21:29:38 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY PLEASE
ATTN
Dear Sir,
RE: SEEKING FOR YOUR KIND DEED CORPORATION FOR THIS APPROACH.
We are making this contact with you based on the reliable information
available to us concerning your reputation and well-organized company (at
our chamber of commerce and industry).
The information is so positive as to convince us that you would be capable
to provide us with a solution to a money transfer of twenty million, five
hundred thousand United States Dollars (US$20,500,000.00).
We are members of a special committee set up for the review and award of
contracts by the department of Petroleum and Mineral Resources.
Our status ranks from ministerial post down to Directors-General. This
Committee is principally mandated by the new Civilian Government to review
the bogus and the over-inflated contracts awarded since 1993 to May,1999,
under the regimes of the former heads of state of Nigeria - Late General
Sani Abacha who died in office in June, 1998 and his successor General
Abdulsalam Abubakar who relinquished power in May, 1999.
In the course of our duty, we have so far been able to recover about
US$135,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Thirty-five Million United States
Dollars) out of which we have used our good offices to set aside the sum of
US$20,500,000.00 for our utilization.
However as civil servants, our code of conduct strictly prohibits us from
operating or running a foreign account, hence we decided to contact you and
ask For your assistance.
Together with some of the top officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Cooperation (NNPC), and the Federal Ministry of finance, we plan to transfer
this amount of money into an oversea account by awarding a non existent
contract from our parastatal (NNPC) to you, to perfect the transfer.
What we need from you, is to provide a very vital account into which the
funds will be transferred. The trust reposed on you at this juncture is
enormous.
In return, we have agreed to offer you 25% of the transferred sum, while 5%
shall be set aside for incidental expenses.
You must however note that this transaction is subject to the following
terms and conditions: Our conviction of your honesty and diligence That you
would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality That
the funds would be transferred to an interest bearing account where the
incidence of taxation would not exert a heavy toll.
I would like to assure you that I have carefully and painstakingly made all
arrangement to ensure actualization of this transaction which will be
concluded within a few working days of the necessary information and
details.
The nature of our communication is of utmost importance hence you may reach
me via my Electronic mail address.
Yours faithfully,
Dr SMITH BENSON
Hon.Chairman .
Note:please respond should be forwarded to this Email address [
smith_benson74@yahoo.com ] for security reasons
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