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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: "Isah Balewa" <isah@isahchamber.com>
Reply-To: isahbalewa75@fastermail.com
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:45:59 +0000
Subject: ASAP

Attn: To Whom It May Concern .
__________________________________________________

This letter is not intended to cause any embarrassment in whatever
form,rather it is intended to contact your esteemed self following the
knowledge of your high repute and trustworthiness.Firstly, I must solicit
your confidentiality.I know that a proposal of this magnitude will make
anyone apprehensive and worried,but I am assuring you that it is made in
good faith and will be of mutual benefit.I am Barrister Isah Balewa,the
personal attorney to a foreign expatriate who until his death was a major
crude oil contractor with the federal government of Nigeria.

My client and his entire family were involved in a fatal motor accident
which unfortunately claimed their lives,along the Shagamu express way
sparing none of the occupants of the vehicle in febuary 2004.I have since
then made several enquiries and personal search in a bid to locate any
relations of my late client apart from his immediate dead family and these
efforts of mine have not been productive.

I then decided to find someone overseas who i can present to the bank to
assist me in securing the money and property left behind by my client before
they are declared as unclaimed and unserviceable by the bank where they
have been lodged for safekeeping. I am particularly interested in securing
the funds lodged with Global Trust Bank Plc,totaling fifteen Million,United
States Dollar(USD15M).

This is because the said Bank has issued a notice to me,unequivocally
instructing me to produce the Next of Kin/Beneficiary to the said account
within the next ten official working days, or have the account confiscated.
Considering my lack of success in my bid to locate his relatives for over a
year now,I solicit your consent to enable me produce you as the Next of Kin
to my deceased client,The funds will then be transferred to you as the
beneficiary and shared according to a proposed sharing pattern/ratio of
60:40 i.e. 60% for me and 40% for you.


I will provide all the necessary legally obtained documents that the bank
might require to back up any claim we make regarding this process,and will
just require your understanding and cooperation to enable us achieve success
within legitimate arrangement,eliminating any liability resulting from any
breach of the prevalent laws.


Your urgent response will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Barrister Isah Balewa.

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