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Until
recently, the amount of the alleged "over-invoiced" funds
held in a "suspense" account at Nigeria's "Apex"
bank have tended to run around $20 - $30 million, with the victim
being promised about 20 - 40%.
Current versions have been updated and, perhaps, adjusted for
inflation. Now, typically the low end of the proposed transfer
of funds is around $40 million. As with older versions, this
is seldom a round figure, but more commonly something like
"$47,500,000.00 (forty seven million, five hundred thousand
United States dollars). These folks do love to spell it out
and are still as fond as ever of overusing parentheses.
Today the $40 million carrot is at the low end and more typically
authors of the newer versions of these letters, faxes and e-mails
claim the amount they are proposing to transfer to the victim's
account is $60 - $80 million, or more.
Presumably because they assume that too high of a commission might
seem suspicious, the newer letters generally promise the victim a
lower percentage of the take than in the past, usually between 10 -
20% of this higher amount.
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