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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: "mark peters" <petermark@tiscali.cz> (may be fake)
Reply-To: petmark1@yahoo.ca
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 11:54:35 +0200
Subject: please acceptance
Dear Sir
I am sorry I have not email you in quite some time. I had to reformat my computer and I lost everything in the process. Fortunately, my seceretary
found your email address for me, so we may now continue this business venture in your country.I hereby write to inform you of my Business Proposal to you
and I understand that this mail will come to you as a surprise.However I want you to have in your mind that my words in this mail to you is my bond
and I am hoping you go through it carefully.I will start by introducing myself to you. I am the Treasury Controller, Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation [NNPC] and a close associate of the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources. The Minister has mandated me to transfer the sum of
US$10.5 million Recovered from over-invoiced contracts involving the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation [NNPC] into several private accounts
in Europe and United States. A total sum of US$ 5 million has been transferred before the Emergence of this present Civilian Administration, leaving the balance
of US$5.5I have made proper arrangement/documentation to transfer the balance which is retained in a coded account of the NNPC with the Central Bank of Nigeria. We are soliciting that you help us to receive the fund in trust.We Cant complete this transaction smoothly without the participation of a foreign partner who would provide an account where the funds could be lodged. Since it is a contract payment, thefunds must be remitted to a foreign account. The remittance of the funds rsequires little documentation. There is no risk involved on your part in this transaction since the Former Minister and I have covered this transaction with adequate contract and external credit documents from the beginning.What we require from you by e-mail are via:
{i} Acceptance letter of this offer
{ii} Your company name/Address and confidential Telephone and fax numbers
{iii} Convincing Honesty,
Trustworthiness and Willingness to abide by the requirements of this proposal paramount of which is CONFIDENTIALITY.We have agreed that you will retain
10% of the entire US$5.5 million for your effort inthis transaction, 90% for us partners here in Nigeria and the remaining 1.0% will be used for defrayal
of incidental cost in the course of this transfer.Please reply urgently by e-mail as we expect that the transaction will not take more than 6 working
days. And please note that this transaction must be top secret.
Best regards,
Mr.Mark Peters
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