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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: d_ogidi@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:51:08 -0700
Subject: your partnership is needed

PRINCE DESMOND OGIDI
CHAIRMAN SEVEN MAN PRESIDENTIAL PANEL
ON FOREIGN CONTRACTORS.
REPLY ONLY TO:d_ogidi@tiscali.co.uk

I am the chairman of Seven (7) Man Presidential Panel on Foreign
Contract Awards And Payment Recommendation. This panel is set up and
empowered by three factors; The President Of Nigeria,Chief Olusegun
Obasanjo,Members of G-34 and the Honourable Members of the Judicial
Panel, to review and subsequently recommend for payments all duly executed
contracts awarded to foreign contractors between 1995 2000 fisacl year.

Precisely five months back,we discovered an over-invoiced contract sum
to the tone of Two Hundred Million United States Dollars
(USD$200,000,000.00).We further traced the origin of this sum and
thus,found out that it was delibrately over-invoiced by then Contract
Awarding Committee before they were dissolved. As it is now,we are very
confident that the government has no knowledge of this sum,neither does
the dossolved committee have access to the said sum again.We still have
almost one year to conclude and it is only then that we shall give official
reports and probably refer this over-invoiced contract sum back to the federal
It
is in the light of this that my colleagues and myself decided to
confidently contact you urgently so that we could perfectly present you
or your company as one of the foreign contractors that executed contract
for the Nigerian government, and we shall recommend Sixty Million United
States Dollars (USD$60,000,000.00) to be paid into your account or companys

account, thereafter we shall refer back to the governments purse the balance
of
One Hundred And Fourty Million Dollars (USD$140,000,000.00).
We Have carefully worked out the strategies to secure all the necessary
approvals
in your name and there is no room for failure,in that we are still at the
head of Contract
Review And Payment Recommendation, and it is only our reports that count.

If we have understood ourselves and believed with trust that we could
do this together and move this sum of Sixty Million
Dollars(USD$60,000,000.00) into your account, then forward to us
urgently the following;

1. Your full names and address.
2. Company's name and address,if any.
3. Full bank account details and
4. Telephone and fax numbers.

We shall further discuss and agree on the percentage sharing as soon as

we hear from you affirmatively.

Sincerely,
PRINCE DESMOND OGIDI


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