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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: musa101@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:45:48 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Attn=3ABusiness=20Proposal?=

BARR.Musa Williams
SOLICITOR AT LAW
REPLY ONLY TO:[musa_williams@ParsiMail.com]

I am Barrister Musa Williams ESQ a solicitor at law. I am the personal attorney.to
Mr. Johnson Beck , a national of your country, who use to work with shell
Development Company in Nigeria. Here in after shall be referred to as my
client.Who died along with his wife in the December 25th,2003 Air Crash
in Benin Republic.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of
my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name
over the Internet, to locate any member of his family it was still unsuccessful
hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating the
money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits were lodged.Particularly,Ecobank
of Nigeria Lagos where the
deceased had an account valued at about $18.7million United States dollars
has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated
within the next fourteen official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over 12months
now I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
since you are a foriegner so that the proceeds of this account valued at
$18.7million dollars can be paid to you and then you and me can share the
money 60% to me and 40% to you I have all necessary legal documents that
can be used to back up any claim we may make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal through.I
guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you from any breach of the law. And I will like you to treat
this as most urgent so that we will receive this money at this first quarter
of the Year.

Please get in touch with me Immediately on my private email above or on
this email:[musa_williams@ParsiMail.com] your telephone and fax number.


Thanks for your co-orperations.

Best regards,
Barr. Musa Williams.



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