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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: "peter donald" <peterdonald_accountant1@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:35:55 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY: AND ITS CONFIDENTIAL REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS
Good Day Sir/Mar.
I am Mr Peter L.Donald the personal accountant to the late first lady Mrs
Stela Obasanjo (THE WIFE TO THE PRESEIDENT OF NIGERIA)she died in SPAIN on
sunday morning been 23RD OF OCTOBER 2005 when she went for a MEDICAL
SURGERY, though she was buaried on the 28th been friday 2005, and we realy
need to make every thing done befor the government start looking into any
thing she has.
Please this is a very urgent email, so please read it very well and
understand it befor you reply back to me, this is the holl story about this
transfer, the late first lady of NIGERIA, Mrs Stela Obansanjo, have a
private account with GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON, and she kept it secret
from the husband the PRESIDENT, because she wanted to use it in a
transaction out side the country, her private attoney and i her private
accountant are the only people who knows about the fund that was deposited
in GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON. the fund was deposited in a defferent
name not on her name, and why she did it like that was because of the
(EFCC) economic and financial crime commission, not to suspect her movement.
To let you know she was surpose to transfer the fund into her private
account in spain befor she deid, though i was incharge of making sure that
the fund should be transfered befor friday been the 21st october 2005,
befor she went for the surgery which took her away from the this earth to
another world, so that is the problem now, if we should keep this fund for
more time in the country the (EFCC) economic and financial crime
commission, will know about it, that is the problem now.
NOW, all i want you to do now is to stand as the rigth owner to the said
fund that is under the care of GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY LONDON. then you
will contact the bank as the owner, which the security bank manager will
then tell you to contact them back with all the nessecary documents that you
use to deposite the fund in their custody (SECURITY COMPANY). then her
private laywer will prepare the documents for you with your name as the
right owner of the deposited fund that is under their care for save purpose.
so as for the name and account number that she use to open the account and
deposited the fund in the security bank, if you are interested in
transacting this transaction with us, i will send them to you; and the
amount of the said fund that is in the security company is £10,000,000,00
(ten million pounds sterling). so as for the percentages that will giude
this transaction i and the private laywer have said that we will give you
30% of the fund, then 60% will be for both of us,then 10% for any
expencies that may occur in this transaction both international and local.
and please to let you know all we need from you is for you to stand as the
owner of the fund, we will take care of the documents by our self you are
not paying any money for the preparation of the documents please note of
that, so if you are interested to transact with us we will need these
information for propare clerification about your self,
1.Name:
2.Address:
3.Marital Status:
4.Occupation:
5.Age:
6.Sex:
7.Nationality:
8.Country Of Residence:
9.Telephone Number:
10.Fax Number:
so once we have all these, her personal attoney will prepare the documents
with your name and your contact address, and send it to you, after that we
will you the contact of the security company (GLOBAL SECURITY COMPANY
LONDON) Manager who will ask for the documents and then tell you what to do
befor he will transfer the fund into your private account where you know it
will be save, then i will come over to your country with all the
informations you gave to me and also with your address to collect our own
share of the fund from you, so that is all,
if you are interested in the transaction reply back imidiately to my private
email address; peter_donald@myway.com.
thanks,
mr peter l. donal,
private accountant.
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