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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: "JAMES ONI,ESQ" <jamesoni12@lycos.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 21:42:22 +0000
Subject: URGENT MAIL !!!PLS CONTACT ME
25, MCDONALDS Street,
Ikoyi Island,
Lagos.
FAX NO.:+44 870 134 4617
ATTN: Sir/Madam,
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.
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 Twenty 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 percent to the account owner (you).
(ii) 65 percent for us (the panel officials).
(iii) 10 percent 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 percent safe and risk-
free.
We intend to effect the transfer within ten (10) banking days from
the date of receipt of the following information through the fax
number stated above: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 utmost confidentiality in this transaction.
I will bring you into a more detailed picture of this transaction
when I hear from you. Please get in touch through my email address
above.
Best regards,
MR.JAMES ONI,ESQ.
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