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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: james adams <jamesadams500002@yahoo.it>
Reply-To: jamesadams585@myway.com
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 15:18:20 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: No Banking Info Required
No Banking Info Required
DR JAMES ADAMS
Federal Ministry of Works & Housing
Ikoyi Lagos. Nigeria.
Date: 26/04/2006
First, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue of it's nature as been utterly confidential and top secret as you were introduced to us in confidence through the Nigerian/Gambian Chambers of Commerce, Foreign Trade division, during an official assignment to Banjul.
We are top officials from the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing (FMW&H), Federal Ministry of Finance and the Presidency, making up the Contract Review Panel (CRP) set up by the Federal Government of Nigeria to review contracts awarded by the past Military administration.
In the course of our work in the CRP, we discovered this fund which resulted from grossly over-invoiced contracts which were executed for the FMW&H during the last administration. The companies that executed the contract have been duly paid and the contracts commissioned leaving the sum of US$26.426M floating in the Escrow account of the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment.
I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the Panel to look for an over-seas partner to whom we could transfer the sum of US$26.426M by Legally subcontracting the contract entitlement to your company. This is bearing in mind that our civil service code of conduct forbids us from owning foreign companies or running foreign accounts while in Government service hence the need for an over-seas partner.
We have agreed that the funds will be shared thus after it has been transferred into your account:
(1) 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the fund.
(2) 65% to us the Government officials (with wish we wish to commence an importation business in conjunction with you).
(3) 5% has been set aside as an abstract projection for reimbursement to both parties for incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of this transaction.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked out for the smooth conclusion of the transaction within ten to fourteen working days of commencement after receipt of the following information from you: Your company name, address, company's details and activities, telephone & fax numbers. These information will enable us make applications and lodge claims to the concerned Ministries & agencies in favor of your company and it is pertinent to state here that this transaction is entirely based on trust as the Solar Bank Draft or Certified Cheque drawable in any of the Central Bank of Nigeria correspondent Bankers in America is going to be made in your name.
Yours faithfully,
DR JAMES ADAMS
NB. Bank Account details not necessary, as preferred mode of payment is by draft or cheque
- james adams
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