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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: "ENGR. AUDU OGBE" <engr_audu@z6.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: engr_audu_ogbe@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:57:35 +0400
Subject: CONTACT ME NOW.{business relation}

Dear friend,

MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.

Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a
surprise and if it might offend you without your prior consent .
I am Engineer. Ogbe Audu, the chairman of the Contract
Award Committee (CAC) of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).

I will like if you or your company can act as the
beneficiary of the USD.41,500,000.00 (Forty One Million Five hundred thousand United States Dollars only) Which we intend to transfer into a foreign account.
This fund was a residue of the over invoiced contract bills awarded by
us for the TURN AROUND MAINTENANCE (TAM) of our Refineries in WARRI,
PORT-HARCOURT and KADUNA and also the Supply ofhard/softwares,pharmaceuticals/medical
items,light and heavy duty vehicles, apparels and other
administrative logistics for the NNPC.

Therefore, we have resolved to go into partnership with you
to transfer the sum of US$41.5m into your account, While we must carry
out proper documentation to ensure that this is risk-free for you and
all the legal requirements are met. It is however agreed, as the account owner in this deal to allow you 30%of the entire sum as compensation, 60% will be held on trust for us while 10% will be used to defray any incidental charges and costs during the course of the transaction.
This transaction will be successfully concluded withing 14
Bank Working days. If you accord to us your unalloyed and due
cooperation.As we are still civil servants in active service and are
bounded by the civil service commission acts of Nigeria. This acts
Prohibits Civil Servants (like us) from owning/operating foreign accounts. This is the only reason we contacted you and why you come into this transaction.Finally, I wish to assure you that all the machinery and logistics that will ensure a successful and smooth transfer have been put in place. Since we are going to use our connections in the Federal Ministry of
Finance (FMF) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to effect the immediate transfer of the funds.
Please endeavor to reply for a more detailed information.
Please,provide YOUR CONFIDENTAIL PHONE/FAX NUMBER AND YOUR

FULL NAMES AND ADRESSES to enable me contact you for further
discussion on this matter.

Please advise in your return e-mail if any time is
confidential enough to call you, Looking forward to hearing from you.
If your are really intrested in this proposal Reply to my
private email address:engr_audu_ogbe@yahoo.com

I anticipate your urgent response.

Engineer.Ogbe Audu

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