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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: "Jerry Duke" <jerryduke01@sympatico.ca>
Reply-To: jerryduke05@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:39:56 +0000
Subject: For your personal attention
>From Engr. Jerry Duke
Chairman NNPC Contract Committee
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp (NNPC)
Falomo - Victoria Island Lagos
My Dear,
URGENTLY AND EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL
I am an Accountant and the Chairman of the Federal Tender Board Committee
which awards contract in the Department of the Petroleum Resources of
Nigeria . I sent you a message through email sometime ago informing you of
our plan to transfer the sum of USD$10.5 Million (Ten Million, Five Hundred
Thousand US Dollars only) to your account. I have been waiting to hear from
you, but up till now, nothing has been heard, hence this particular message.
I want you to know that these funds originated from an Over-invoiced
contract sum which was awarded to a foreign firm in 1999. I and my three (3)
other colleagues in the Tender Board purposely inflated the actual cost of
the contract to the tune of USD$10.5 Million. However, the original
contractor has fully executed the contract, the project commissioned and the
contractor paid his actual contract worth, leaving behind the over-invoiced
sum for us to claim. So, it is based on this that we now want you/your
company to come forward and represent us to claim this sum on our behalf.
We are Civil Servants, and by law, not allowed to operate foreign account
while still in office. Therefore , you are to act as one who had executed
the contract worth the sum of USD$10.5 Million for my department and you now
want your payment. This deal is 100% risk free. We are perfectly in charge
and had worked out modalities that would guarantee a hitch free transfer of
this fund to your account.
If you are interested in the deal, and you are a trustworthy person who
would not sit on this money if it is transferred into your account, kindly
indicate by contacting me through my E-mail, indicating your full names,
home/office address, phone/fax numbers and as well as your bank account
details. These informations shall enable us process and obtain requisite
payment approvals in your name from the respective ministries for the fund
release to your nominated account
NOTE: After a successful transfer, 25% of the fund shall be for you, while
75% for me and my colleagues. We will also visit you immediately we conclude
this transaction to collect and invest our shares of the total sum into any
viable business you may advise us in your country.
Thank you as we look forward to your anticipated co-operation. NOTE: Do get
back to me urgently ONLY through my alternative email
(jerryduke05@yahoo.com) . This deal must be kept absolutely confidential
till we succeed. Every other detail shall be made available as soon as I
hear from you.
Yours sincerely
Engr. Jerry Duke
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