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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <ahmedsylvester@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:27:45 +0000
Subject: call me
Greetings, I am Dr. Sylvester Ahmed, Director of International Remittance Department, Central Bank of Nigeria.My office is responsible for payment of Contracts.I am contacting you in confidence about Mr.Masayoshi Suzuki ,a foreign contractor whose company executed a contract for the Federal Ministry of Aviation last year. The contract was the renovation and repair of the two International airport runways in Lagos and Abuja.The contract was valued $450,000,000.00.A total of $400,000,000.00 had been paid so far .However,due to some some contingency reasons,outstanding foreign contractors were unable to receive their remaining contract payment because there was delay in passing the federal budget.However,with the signing of the Budget,many other foreign contractors besieged my office for payment but I discovered that Mr. Suzuki who hitherto had been calling me to find out when the payment would be made did not show up. I made contact through his forwarding numbers but it was dead. I was then forced to contact the Japanese embassy in my country and after investigation,it was discovered that Mr.Masayoshi Suzuki is dead. He died on the 20 th August 2008,in a Spanish air c
However,the Central Bank has approved his name in this quarter payment. He has to receive this money or forfeit it to the treasury within this quarter. I have made every effort to locate any surviving member of his immediate family but with no luck,I discovered that he died with his new wife in the Spanish air crash,they were on a holiday trip.Beside,he had no other relation as non has shown to claim the money despite all my effort.I have contacted you to stand in as his next of kin and received the money which has been approved for payment.I shall guide you on what to do but for a start if you can handle this deal ,send the following1. Your bank name2. Bank address3. Account numbers4. Bank swift5.Bank telephone and fax numbers6.a copy of your identity.7.Your direct telephone numbers.As soon as I get this information,I shall send to you the contract payment documents so that you can complete them.I shall guide you all the way until the transfer is effected.I also want you to assure me that you will not disappoint me in this transaction,the total contract amount is $50,000,000.00.Once the fund is effected ,20% will be your share for participation while I will take the rest.I hope this is a fair share.Please send your response to ahmedsylvester@yahoo.com for prompt responseI look forward to hearing from you.Dr. Sylvester Ahmed234-80-33180067
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