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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: "solomon thomas" <solomontomas2005@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 13:53:22 +0100
Subject: Your Kind Attention.
Dear Friend,
Greetings and how are you and your family? Hope everything is fine as
expected? To make you less curious, I am Solomon Thomas the personal
assistant to the Former Inspector General of police, Federal Republic Of
Nigeria who was all edged of financial probe while in office and still under
the custody of Investigation committee that was set up by the Federal
Government to investigate his financial success.
My boss is presently serving a six month jail term for mismanagement of
government funds and still have a court case for different count charges, he
could not make any private and confidential communications due to his
present predicament hence the reason for me contacting you on his behalf for
a kind assistance that will be of mutual benefit to us. Before the arrest of
my boss, he had two trunk boxes containing cash $75MUSD, which he deposited
in the vault of a financial institution in Cotonou, Republic of Benin
secretly. He told the financial institution that the funds was for the
importation of cocoa processing machines to develop his wife's cocoa farm
here in Nigeria.
I want you to do us a favor to receive this trunk boxes containing the cash
and lodge the money to a banking system in your base or any safer place as
the beneficiary without raising eyebrow from any quarter. We have plans to
do investment in your country, like real estate and industrial production.
This is my reason for calling and writing to you. I got your contact from
the Central Bank of Nigeria as a reputable foreign contractor. Kindly see
this as a help to act as the new beneficiary to the funds so that the
Government will not seize the money or rather found out about the money
because they will want to lay hand on it and use it to prosecute my boss.
Already the incumbent government had seized all his money and confisticated
all his bank account. The earlier the better as they say.
However, be inform that all modality for hitch free transaction have been
put in place. I was at the financial institution at Cotonou, Republic of
Benin last week to make some findings about the safety of the funds.
Actually everything was okay but we are not comfortable about the money
still laying there for security reason hence our motive to move the funds
offshore to a safer place where a reliable and trustworthy person like
yourself could help lay claim to it as the rightful beneficiary and lodge in
a banking system so that the government will not lay their hand on the cash.
Prior to my findings with the financial institution in Cotonou, I was told
that they can help ship the trunk boxes through their Diplomatic Courier
Service (DCS) to their affiliate security firms in Europe and America.
Please endeavor to take this as help, however, you need to be rest assured
of hitch free transaction in the name of God because all modality for hitch
free delivery shall be put in place.
I await youtr kind reply so that we can forge ahead in good faith. Thanks in
anticipation and God bless you.
Regards,
Solomon Thomas.
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