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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: "Hajiya M.A." <hajiya_ma@wanadoo.es> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hjia_ma@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:07:50 +0100
Subject: Greetings from Hajiya M.A.
Date: 23/08/05
Dear Sir,
I am Hajiya Maryam Abacha, the widow of General Sani Abacha, the late Nigerian head of state who died in office on June 8, 1998.
I know you may have received tons of emails and facsimiles written by agents of the Government who claim to be my very person or related to my family; all in their effort to discredit my family and to make it difficult for me in case I seek anybody's assistance in safeguarding the remaining of my family's wealth.
These are very rough days for my family as my son and I are being tried by the Government for embezzlement and human rights violations.
The Government has seized more than $1.1 billion dollars in local and foreign currencies belonging to my family, along with 41 landed properties.
With the help of the Israeli forensic accountants hired by the Nigerian Government, $2.8 billion in my late Husbands bank accounts have been discovered and frozen in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Monaco.
You can confirm this from any source.
I am currently under 24-hour surveillance by the police, and my entire family is banned from leaving the country. That very well amounts to house arrest. In short my troubles have no bounds.
The Government is indulging in senseless revenge, harassment and victimization against my family because my late husband jailed the current president for coup attempt.
Today, I am mailing you because I need a very big help from you. And I know that by the grace of God, you will do it for my family.
I have $35 Million dollars deposited in a Security company outside Africa. The money was packed in two trunk boxes and deposited with the company in 1997. I will supply you all details of the security company in due course
I declared the content as family valuables. So no human soul is aware on the fund. Even the security company did not know the content was cash/money. They only scanned the trunk boxes to make sure it didn't contain dangerous and prohibited materials.
The deposit documents are always in my body, which is why the Nigerian security operatives could not find anything about the deposit; during the time they turned my house up side down in search of evidence and traces of my family wealth.
I want you to receive and manage/invest this money on my behalf. I am on my knees begging you to safeguard this fund for my family.
You will take 10% of the total fund as your compensation, and another 5% for your expenses such as phone bills, Internet bills, stationeries etc.
You will then be managing the remaining 85% for me on trust.
I will scan and send the deposit documents to you. I cannot fax or call you as my line is tapped and we know our house is bugged also.
I will also mail to instruct the security company to release the consignment to you.
I want you to recover and manage this fund on my behalf, till we regain our freedom and are able to manage our lives in peace, possibly in a foreign land as I don't want to stay in this country anymore.
We still have a few trusted family friends who are core Northerners and in the diplomatic quarters. I may use their positions and the immunity that goes with it to move the fund to your desired destination as soon as the security company releases it to you.
However, I will not disclose the content to anybody. I don't take chances. I have learnt my lessons the hard way.
Please I am expecting your mail. Reply me at: hjia_ma@yahoo.com.
Yours sincerely,
Hajiya M.A.
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