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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: ebitu_johnson02@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:00:01 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REPLY=2D=2D=2D=2D=2DASAP?=

Greetings---Hendrik,


I am pleased to get across to you for a very urgent and profitable business
proposal, though I don't know you neither have I seen you before but my
confidence was reposed on you, when i got your contact over the internet,
hoping that the urgency and confidentiality which required in this bussiness
must kept by you .

I am an account manager with the GLOBAL BANK OF NIGERIA PLC Ikeja branch,
Lagos Nigeria.The intended business is thus; We had a customer, a Foreigner
who used to work with CHEVRON OIL COMPANY,as a technical engineer.Andrew
Hendrik.
He has in his Account with our branch the sum of $19 Million us dollars,
Unfortunately the man died three years ago until today non-of his next of
kin has come forward to claim the money. Having noticed this, I in collaboration
with two other top Officials of the bank have covered up the account all
this while.

Now we want you (being a foreigner) to be fronted as one of his next of
kin, as we are going to employ a service of an acredited attorney who will
procure all the relevants documents to backup your claims, and stand on
your behalf to sign all the necessary paper work.

The whole procedures will last only fourteen working days to get the fund
retrieved successfully without trace even now or in future.Your response
is only what we are waiting for as we have perfected all the necessary
arrangement.

As soon as this message comes to you kindly get back to me indicating your
interest, then I will furnish you with the whole procedures to ensure that
the deal is successfully concluded. For your assistance we have agreed to
give you (40%) of the Total sum at the end of the transaction while 55%
would be for i and my colleagues and the remaining 5% would be for any
form of expenses that may be incurred during the course of the transaction
which would be deducted when the money is transferred into your account
before splitting the balance on the agreed percentage of 55% to 40%.

kindly send the following information to us immediately.
Your full name Telephone,mobile and fax numbers as well as your
resident or company address for procedure.
Await earliest response.

Thanks,

Mr.Ebitu Johnson.




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