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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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Please note about this email:

• It is a next of kin / dead customer scam (8 typical phrases found).
  

Fraud email example:

From: "ALBERT NJOKU" <albernjoku@web.de>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:44:17 +0100
Subject: WITH YOUR COOPERATION WE CAN ACHIEVE THIS

ALBERT NJOKU & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS & ADVOCATES
NO 20 OJOSHO AVENUE
LAGOS - NIGERIA

 
Dear Friend,

May I first apologies for this unsolicited mail to you. I am aware that this is certainly an unconventional approach to starting a business relationship but as time goes on you will realize the need for my action.

My name is Barrister Albert Njoku a Solicitor and advocates, I was an attorney to late Mr. James Hutchinson, an American who worked with an Oil company in Nigeria. On 21st August 1999 my client, his wife and their three children were involved in a ghastly motor accident along Sagamu Express road. My Client and his entire family unfortunately lost their lives in the accident. Since then I have made several enquiries to the embassy to locate any of my Client! 's extended relatives, which has proved abortive.

My main reason for contacting you is to assist me in repatriating the money and properties left behind by my Client before they are confiscated or declared unserviceable by the banks where these funds was deposited. Particularly, a Finance Company where my late client has a fixed deposit of US$15,000,000.00 (Fifteen million United States Dollars), the said bank has issued me a final notice to provide the next of kin to my late Client or they will confiscate this fund and declare it as unserviceable.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating any of my client's relatives for the past four years, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to this my client. I have all the necessary legal documents that we shall used to backup any claim we may make. All I require is your honest cooperation to enable this deal go through. I guarantee that we shall execute this under a legitimate arrangement that wi! ll protect us from any breach of the law here in Nigeria and internati onally.

You should also assure me that you would not tell people about this business until we conclude it, as exposing it now may jeopardize our chances of concluding fast. This fund shall be transferred to you first, before we will then share it an agreed percentage. I shall need your help to invest my share in your country; so any experience you have in this area will be beneficial. I will need your most confidential telephone and fax numbers, if you have a mobile phone I believe it will help so that we can reach you anytime.

Please get back to me as soon as possible, your positive or negative response is welcome.

Best regards,
Albert Njoku
Attorney At Law

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