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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: "Dr John Akin Williams" <williamsaken25@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: drjohnwilliams_aken1@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 07:41:15 +0000
Subject: URGENT!!!
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
E-mail:drjohnwilliams_aken1@yahoo.co.uk
Dear,
BUSINESS PROPOSAL
URGENT TRANSFER OF $25.5M DOLLARS.
I am DR. JOHN AKIN WILLIAMS a senior accountant in the Nigeria National Petroleum orporation (NNPC) and I head a five man Tenders Board in charge of contractawards and payment approvals. I came to know of you in my search for a reliable and reputable person to handle a very confidential transaction which involves the transfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account.
There were series of contracts executed by a consortium of multinational construction firms in favour of NNPC among which was the expansion of the pipeline net work within Nigeria for Crude Oil and down stram products distribution and its subsequent evacuation.
The original value of the contract was deliberately over invoiced to the tune of US$25.5 (Twenty Five Million, Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars) which has now been approved for payment is ready to be transferred. Being that the companies that actually executed this contracts have been fully paid and the project officially commissioned, my colleagues and I are willing to transfer the total amount to your account for subsequent disbursement since we as civil servants are prohibited by the Code of Conduct Bureau (Civil Service Laws) from opening and/or operating foreign accounts in our names.
Needless to say, the trust reposed on you at this juncture is enormous. In return, we have agreed to offer you 30% of the transferred sum, while 10% shall be set aside for incidental expenses (internal and external) between the parties in the course of the transaction. You will be mandated to remit the balance to our accounts in due course. You must however NOTE that this transaction is subject to the following
terms and conditions:-
a.That you would treat this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.
b.That the funds would be transferred to an interest bearing account where the incidents of taxation would not exert heavy toll on the transaction.
c.Your continued demonstration of transparent honesty and diligence.
Modalities have been worked out at the highest levels of the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria for the immediate transfer of the funds within 14 working days subject to your satisfaction of the above stated terms.Our assurance is that your role is absolutely risk free. To accord this transaction the legality it deserve and for mutual security of the fund, the whole approval procedures will be officially and legally processed with your name or the name of any company you may nominate as the bonafide beneficiary of the contract payment.
Once more, I want you to understand that having put in over 20 years in the Civil Service of my country, I am averse to having my image and career dented. This matter should therefore be treated with utmost secrecy and urgency. Kindly expedite action as we are behind schedule to enable us conclude this transfer Contact me strictly on my e-mail. Yours sincerely,
DR. JOHN AKIN WILLIAMS.
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