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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: "magnus williams" <mrmagnuswilliams22@mailbox.hu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 05:48:22 -0700
Subject: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL
Engineer magnus williams,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria.telephone num:+234-80-625-41-366
Your candid attn:
REF: URGENT CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL,
Most competent people are choosen for competent jobs and assignments,
and with that due respect have we also choosen to select you and contact
you on this very confidential matter. Our Nigerian Chamber of Commerce
and industry offers variety of names of notable people from your part
of the Globe. That was where I got your information from. Therefore,
after due deliberation with my partners, we decided to forward to you
this proposal. We believe that you would be in a position to help us in
our bid to transfer the sum of US$41.5M(Forty-0ne million, five hundred
thousand dollars only) into a foreign account. We shall make it 100%
legal as much possible as you would want.
We are members of the special committee for budget and planning of the
Ministry of Petroleum.
This committee is principally concerned with
contract appraisals and approval of contracts in order of priorities as
regards CAPITAL PROJECTS of the Federal Government of Nigeria. With our
positions, we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of
Forty-one Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars(US$41.5M).
We are working with the present Democratically elected Government in my
country, and we are seeking the support of Foreign Government which
the race has started. So they have given directive to all Federal
Parastatals to settle all Foreign Contractors being owed for contract that
they have done. Therefore, our plan is to include your name as one of the
contractors being owed in our corporation.What we need from you is to
provide a safe Account into which the funds will be transferred since
Government Officials in my country are not allowed by our laws to Operate
Foreign Accounts. It has been agreed that you will be compensated with
US$8.3 Million of the remitted funds. US$31.125Million belongs to us,
while US$2.075Million will be set aside to offset expenses and pay the
necessary taxes.
It may interest you to know that two years ago a similar transaction
was carried out with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the C.E.O of Crane
International Trading Corporation at number 135, East 57th street, 28th
floor,
New York 10022, with Telephone (212)308-7788 and Telex Number 6731689.
After the agreement between both of us in which he was to take 25% of
the money as his share, the money was duly transferred into his Account.
We were disappointed on our arrival in New York as we were reliably
informed that Mr. Patrice Miller was no longer on that address while his
Telephone and Telex Numbers have been reallocated to somebody else. That
was how we lost US$27.5M to Mr.Patrice Miller.
This time around we would not want you to be like that. We need a more
reliable and trustworthy person and a reputable Company to do this
business with, hence we contacted you. So if you can prove yourself to be
trusted and interested in this deal then we are prepared to do business
with you. What we want from you is the assurance that you will let us
have our share when this amount of US$41.5M is transferred into your
account.
If this proposal satisfies you, please contact us, so we can advice you
on the modalities of the transaction. All modalities of this transfer,
have been worked out and once started will not take more than 7
Banking days with the absolute support of all concerned. This transaction is
100% safe and risk free now and after the transfer. Kindly treat this
as urgent and very confidential. you can contact me with the email
address below:
EMAIL:magnuswilliams11@gmail.com <EMAIL%3Amagnuswilliams11@gmail.com>
Best regards.
Engineer magnus williams,
Department of Budget and Planning
Ministry of Petroleum,
Lagos-Nigeria.telephone num:+234-80-625-41-366
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