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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. EMMY BRIGHT" <dremybright6@biz.by>
Reply-To: dremybright@hotmail.co.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:31:11 -0500
Subject: FOR YOUR URGENT ATTENTION
From Dr. Emmy Bright
Chairman NNPC Contract Committee.
Nigerian National Petroleum Corp.
Falomo - Victoria Island Lagos.
My Dear,
URGENTLY AND EXTREMELY CONFIDENTIAL
I am an Accountant and the Chairman of the Tender Board Committee which
awards contract in the Department of the Petroleum Resources of Nigeria . I
sent you this email to inform you of our plan to transfer the sum of
USD$8.6Million (Eight Million, Six Hundred Thousand US Dollars only) to your
account.
I want you to know that this funds originated from an Over-invoiced contract
sum which was awarded to a foreign firm in 1999. I and my three (3) other
colleagues in the Tender Board purposely inflated the actual cost of the
contract to the tune of USD$8.6 Million. However, the original contractor
has fully executed the contract, the project commissioned and the contractor
paid his actual contract worth, leaving behind the over-invoiced sum. So, it
is based on this that we now want you/your company to come forward to stand
in and claim this sum on our behalf.
We are Civil Servants, and we are not allowed to operate foreign account
while still in office, so you are to act as one who had executed a contract
worth the sum of USD$8.6 Million for my Department and you now want your
payment settled. Remarkably, this deal is 100% risk free. We are perfectly
in charge and had worked out modalities that would guarantee a hitch free
transfer of this fund to your account fully free of any liens or
encumbrances and are clean, clear and non-criminal origin. We have also
mapped out 35% of the total sum for you for your help and assistance while
the remaining is for me and my colleagues.
If you are interested in the proposal, and you are a trustworthy person who
would not sit on this money if it is transferred into your account, kindly
indicate by contacting me through my E-mail and you can as well send your
bank account details for this transfer. Please note that this deal must be
kept absolutely confidential till we have concluded it.
NOTE : After a successful transfer, 35% for you, 65% for us. We will also
visit you immediately we conclude this transaction to collect and invest our
shares of the total sum into any viable business you may advise us in your
country. Please send your response through my email address for my urgent
attention. Nevertheless, I got your email contact information through the
internet. Thank you as we look forward to your anticipated co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Emmy Bright
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