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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: "christopher williams" <chrisscwilliams04@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:55:26 +0000
Subject: ATTENTION TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARIES OF FUNDS
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
PUBLIC DEBT COMMITTEE/FOREIGN PAYMENT
126 MARINA ROAD, VICTORIA ISLAND LAGOS
ATTENTION TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARIES OF FUNDS NOTICE OF
PART
PAYMENT OF $5,000,000 TO ALL FOREIGN CONTRACTORS/BENEFICIARY OF FUNDS
WHO
ARE YET TO BE PAID BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA.
Your name and your contact details was given to this committee in
respect of
your total contract sum /money owed to you which you have failed to
claim
because of either non-compliance of official processes or because of
your
unbelief of the reality of your genuine payment. This is to alert you
that
you now that you have a good news to your payment this time around.
This
government have finalize every arrangements to pay you the above part
payment by using part of our crude oil money sold and supplied to the
American government recently, for which they paid us raw cash that runs
into
several millions of United State dollars and which made President Bush
to
visit Nigeria to solidify the both countries economic relationship.
The federal government have mandated this committee to handle this part
payment by paying the same raw cash to all foreign contractors who are
yet
to receive their genuine contract sum, and to those contractors who
have not
received any part payment since the completion of their contract to the
federal government of Nigeria/parastatals. This committee made up of
men and
women of honor have worked out special internal arrangements with
access
diplomatic courier service that will dispatch this $5,000,000 cash to
you
LIVE with immediate effect upon your acceptance to this special
arrangement.
The $5,000,000 cash payment are all in $100 denominations and will be
fifty
thousand pieces currency notes of united state dollars which will be
neatly
packaged by this committee and handed over to the courier company for
urgent
dispatch to your confidential address in your country and at your door
step.
This part payment arrangements is first to apply and first to serve,
because, we have limited cash for this purpose.
The federal governments have only taken care of the tickets,
accommodation,
feeding and basic traveling allowances of all the officials of the
above
courier company who will come live to your address to deliver this part
payment to you. If you have accepted this cash part payment arrangement
as
above stated, please urgently forward to this committee without further
delay your confidential address where the courier staff will deliver
the
cash package to you and also give us your private telephone numbers,
your
direct fax number and your email address for easy contact to you.
Remember
to indicate to us your state name, your city name and your nearest
airport
to your address. This special arrangement is to convince you that this
government is not deliberately withholding your genuine payment. Please
accept our humble apologies for the delay to your payment. Please don't
reveal these private arrangements to pay you to any body and stop
contacting
fake officials who have nothing good to offer you. Awaiting your urgent
response
Yours faithfully,
DR CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
CHAIRMAN, PUBLIC DEBT COMMITTEE/FOREIGN PAYMENT.
_________________________________________________________________
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