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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: MOMADU TAFIGA <momadutafiga@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: momadu_tafiga@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 10:49:58 +0100 (BST)
Subject: MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM COPORATION
cablegram NAPETOR:Falomo office complex, Ikoyi-Lagos.
>From the desk of Mr Momadu Tafiga,
Finance/Accounts department.
Dear Friend,
I am an accountant with the Nigerian National Petroleum Coporation
(NNPC),the major prospector and exporter of Nigeria's petroleum
products and a member of it's foreign contracts tender committee.
I have been assigned by my colleagues to seek for an honest foreign
national who will assist us in transferring the above stated sum, which arise
from an inflated contract awarded by my committee on behalf of my coporation to some foreign firms.
The money $25.5M has been approved for payment by this Coporation
NNPC,the Federal Ministry of Finance (endorsed by the Accountant General of the Federation) and to be paid by the Central Bank of Nigeria under
contract number, NNPC/FGN/FMF/CBN/02/99.
The original value of the above contracts were intentionally inflated
by us (Members of the foreign contract tender committee) to the tone of
twenty five million,five hundred thousand united states dollars only(U S
$25.5). Now that all the contractors have been paid, following
the completion and commissioning of their various contracts. We want to
transfer this inflated sum to a functional,save and trusted bank
account, Hence i am contacting you on behalf of my colleagues.
We need your assistance for two main reasons, (1 ) As Government
employees we are not permitted by Nigerian laws to operate foreign based
accounts. (2 ) Since these contracts were executed by foreign firms we also need a foreign company to act as the beneficiary for purpose of
transferring this money out of Nigeria.
Members of my committee and i have unanimously agreed to compensate you
with any percentage agreed by both parties for the expected assistance and
service. We have also agreed to set aside 10% of the total sum for any
expenses that both side might incure during the cause of the
transaction.
The nature of your company's business is irrelevant as far as this
transaction is conerned.
While promising you a quick and trouble-free transfer of this money
into your account,I want to inform you that this is a sensitive transaction
which must not be made known to any other party than two of us. This is very
important as this deal involves some high-ranking Nigerian
Government functionaries who would not want to beinvolved in a scandal
should this deal be made open.
Please, contact me for detailed information of this transaction.
You can visit our website for more information about our
corporation,www.nnpcgroup.com
Yours sincerely,
Mr.Momadu Tafiga
(For and on behalf of my colleagues)
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