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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: john_madu001@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:48:30 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?TRANSFER=20OF=20US=2421=2E5=20MILLION?=
Attn:President/Ceo.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL .
RE: TRANSFER OF US$21.5 MILLION (TWENTY ONE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED
THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).
I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry
as we are using the only secured and confidential medium available to
seek for foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction
which is of mutual benefit.
I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and
Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC)Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC
by my Committee.
This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$21.5M. U.S.Dollars.
This was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my
committee to benefit from the project. We now want to transfer this
money which is in a suspense Account with NNPC into any
Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.
SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you
will be entitled to 20% of the money,70% will be for me and my partners
while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses
that may be incurred by us during the course of this transfer,both
locally and international expenses.
I would require the following: -
1. Your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers.
The above informations would be used to make formal applications as a
matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer
to your account.It does not matter whether or not your company does
contract projects of this nature described here. The assumption is
that your company won the major contract and subcontracted it out to
other companies. More often than not, big trading companies or firms of
unrelated fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more
specialized firms for execution of such contracts.We have strong
reliable connections and contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria,
as well as the Federal Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt
that all the money will be released and transferred if we get
the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this deal. Therefore,
when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same
connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned
Government Ministries for 100% security.
We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once
in a lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be
transferred to the overseas Accounts for us, before the present
Democratic Government starts Auditing all Federal Government owned
Parastatals.Please contact me immediately through my email address
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it
will enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this
deal.But where you are interested,send the required documents
aforementioned herein through my above email box address
(mr_john_madu@surimail.com),as time is of the essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.John Madu
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