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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: tundelemo_22@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 03:19:29 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?l=20NEED=20YOUR=20COOPERATION=2E?=

FROM:Office of the Deputy Governor
Central Bank Of Nigeria (CBN).

ATTN: DIRECTOR


Is my pleasure to contact you. I must sincerely solicit your strictest confidendencein
this transaction this is by virtue of its nature as being utterly confidential
and top secret.What I am about to divulge to you in this mail is top secretor
does not meet with your business ethics, I crave for your indulgence.

I am Tunde Lemon, Deputy Governor Central bank of nigeria and a member of
a special committee C. R.P(Contract Review Panel) setup by the present civilian
government of Nigeria.
We are saddled with the task of auditing the account of the government parastatals
and ministries for the past 10 years.In the course of our work in the committee,we
discovered this funds which resulted from gross invaluation of contracts
by top government officials of last adminstration The company that executed
the contract has been duly paid and the contract commissioned leaving the
sum of $25,500,000.00 (Twenty-five million,five hundred thousand USD)floating
in the Escrow account of the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment.

I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in
the committee to look for an oversea partner to whom we can transfer the
sum of $25,500,000.00 (Twenty-five million,five hundred thousand USD)legally
sub contracting the entitlement of you/your company. This is bearing in
mind that our civil service code of conduct forbids us from owning a foreign
company or running foreign account while still in active governmental service.

Hence, the need for an oversea partner like you. We have agreed that the
funds will be shared after it has been paid into your nominated account
based on each parties negotiation upon your acceptance and willingness to
assist us in this transaction. We have also agreed that our own share of
the funds will be used for importation business in conjunction with you,
as we cannot bring back the cash to Nigeria.All logistics are in place and
all modalities are worked out for this smooth conclusion of this transaction
within 10 to 14 working days of commencement after receipt of the following
information:

Your full name:
Company name:
Address:
Company's detail & activities:
Telephone & Fax numbers:

These information will enable us make the application and lodge claims to
the concerned ministries and agencies in favour of your company and it is
pertinent to state here that this transaction is entirely based on trust
as the solar bank draft or certified cheque draw able in any central Bank
of Nigeria correspondent Bankers in America, Asia and Europe is going to
be made in your name . In order to move forward quickly, please respond
to me by telephone number 2348033192368 it was acquired for confidentiality)so
I can bring you into the complete pictured information of this pending project
as to the successful conclusion of this project.The best response, however,
would be by telephone so we can discuss fully all issues needed to complete
this venture in good time and successfully.
I wait to hear prompt and positive response from you to this business proposal.Please
reply me via this email address tundelemon_22@latinmail.com

Thank you and God bless.

Best Regards,
Tunde Lemon.(Deputy Governor CBN)



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