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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: euwiego@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 00:57:53 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?confidential?=

DEAR,Sir

I am Mr Emma Uwiego, Accountant to the Contract Award and Monitoring
Committee(C.A.M.C) in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).Sometimes
in 2002, my committee awarded a contract to a Conglomerate of Foreign companies
attached to NNPC. The contract was over-invoiced to the tune of {US$40.3million}
this was done deliberately; the over-invoicing was a deal by members of
my committee to benefit from the project. We now desire to transfer this
money,

which is presently in a suspense account of NNPC with the Central
Bank of Nigeria into an overseas account, which we expected you to
provide.BENEFIT: For providing the account we shall remit the money,you
will be entitled to 30% of the money 60% will be for my partners, and me
while 10% has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that
might be incurred by us during the course of this transaction, both local
and international expenses. I would require the following information from
you:

(1) The name and address of your bank

(2) Your account number/swift code

{3} Your private tele phone and fax number

The above documents will be used to make formal applications as a
matter of procedure for the release of the money for onward transfer to
your account. It does not matter whether or not your company does project
of this nature described here, the assumption is that you WON A MAJOR CONTRACT
and subcontracted it out to other companies more of ten than not, big trading
companies or firms of related fields win major contracts and subcontracts
to more specialized firms for execution of such contracts.

We have strong connections at the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal
Ministry of Finance and we have no doubt that all this money will be released
and transferred if we get the necessary Foreign Partner(s) to assist us
in the deal. There fore when the business is successfully concluded,we shall
through our same onnections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned
government inistries for 100% security.

If this proposal is of interest to you, then you reply me in anticipation
of your cooperation thurogh this email address
we can proceed

Best Regards,

Mr Emma Uwiego



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