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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: (sent from abused email account)
Reply-To: <dremybright@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:27:37 +0000
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. 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 possibly an empty bank account. 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 via my email alternate e-mail: dremybright@hotmail.co.uk 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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