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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: beton_bau@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:06:27 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mutual=20Benefit?=
From: Tope Raphael,
Federal Ministry of Aviation,
Lagos, Nigeria.
My name is Tope Raphael, the Chairman of the Contract Award Committe of
the Federal Ministry of Aviation.
Sometime last year, the Federal Government of Nigeria decided to upgrade
the Radar and Landing Facilities at the Mallam Aminu Kano International
Airport, kano in Northern Nigeria. The contract ran into several millions
of Dollars.
The contract was handled by a foreign firm but because of the huge monetary
profit we envisaged we decided to over-invoice the contract sum.
Now the contract has been completed and the original contractor has since
been paid, but the contract balance of US$6.5 million, which resulted from
the over invoiced contract sum that has been left in a suspense account
with the Federal Ministry of Finance is what my partners and I are planning
to take out of the Country for ourselves.
The problem is as government officials, we are not supposed to own fat bank
accounts, talk less of having foreign ones.
To this end, we are soliciting your assistance as a foreign partner who
can assist us and receive this amount into your account. We are ready to
share this money with you on the basis of participation.We also have plans
to invest part of this money in any viable business in your country under
your care, as we are very close to retirement age.
In any case, I received a reference of you on the net while looking for
a potential and reliable partner.
Please if you accept my proposal do not hesitate to send me an e-mail, so
that I can provide you with the basic procedures for the release of the
fund.
It does not matter whether you or your company does contract project of
the nature described here, the assumption is that you won a major contract
and subcontracted it to another company, more often than not, big trading
companies or individuals of unrelated field win major contracts here in
Nigeria and subcontracts same to more specialized firms for execution.
BENEFIT: For providing the account where we shall remit this money, you
will be entitled to 10% of the entire funds, 85% will be for me and my partners,
while 5% has been set aside to cover any expenses that may be incurred by
both parties during this
transaction, both local and International.
Please I enjoin you to handle this transaction with utmost degree of maturity
and confidentiality because I am still in active government service with
the
Federal Ministry of Aviation, if I receive your response on time, this whole
transaction could be accomplished within the shortest possible time based
on your interest and determination, since the money is already in transit.
Please, try to reach me soon as there is no much time to waste on this.
My alternative email address is
beton_bau@yahoo.fr
Yours faithfully,
Tope Raphael.
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