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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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From: "Michael Adams" <michaeladms@msn.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:15:30 +0000
Subject: YOUR PROMPT REPLY WILL HIGHLY APPRECIATED
FROM Mr.MICHAEL ADAMS
EMAIL: michael_adams207@yahoo.com
PHONE: 234-80-57-23-94-31
YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED
Dear Sir,
I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee of the Petroleum and
Natural Resources Ministry here in Nigeria[NNPC], for security reasons,
I may not wish to disclose how I got your email address for now.
After due deliberation with my partner, I decided to forward to you
this business proposal, we want you to assist us
receive the sum of Twenty eight million, six hundred thousand United
States Dollars (US$28.6m) into your account.
This funds resulted from an over-invoiced contract awarded by us under the
budget allocation to my ministry and the bill was approved for payment by
the concerned ministries.
The contract was executed, commissioned and the contractor was paid his
actual cost of the contract. Now, we are left with th balance of us28.6m as
the over invoiced amount, which we have deliberately over estimated for
our own use.
Please note that the law forbids civil servants to operate
or own foreign accounts hence this contact, we have agreed to share the
money in the following percentages: 30 for you, 60
for us 10 for tax asmay be required by your government.
Note that this transaction is very much free from
all sorts of risk hence the business was carefully planned before it
was successfully executed and we the officials involved in the deal have put
manyears in service to our ministry.
We have been exercising patience for this privilege for so long not until
the presidential announcement last week that all foreign contractors owed be
paid forthwith, this will enable the presidential tax force reconcile our
debt ratio with
the outside world especially now that we are begging for dept forgiveness
from our foreign creditors.
To most of us involved in this deal its a life time
blessing we cannot afford to miss. Upon indication of your interest to
fully co-operate with us, a payment application/information form will be
sent to you via email for
completion.
Note that the following information: a) bankers name
and address, b) account number and account name and c) your private
phone number and email address will enable us seek/secure approval of the
fund from the concerned government quarters/ministries within 3-4 banking
days.
As soon as we confirm receipt of this money in your nominated bank
account, my partner and I will come over to your
country to arrange for our own share and possibly invest part of this money
in
your country.
Let honesty and trust be our watchword throughout
this transaction.I shall furnish you with some details about myself.
Your prompt reply will be highly appreciated.
Best regards.
Michael Adams.
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