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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: "Jimmy Clarke" <uchenachi1@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 14:33:57 +0000
Subject: Please help me!!!

FROM: KINGSLEY CHAMBER & ASSOCIATE
Lion Building,
Suite 52, Saka Tinubu,
Lagos Nigeria.
Tel: +234-803-5829042

Dear friend,

I am Barr. Kingsley House personal attorney to Mr.Engr. John King, a
national of your country, who used to work with Zenon Oil Company here in
Nigeria herein after, shall be referred to as my client. My client with his
entire family (The wife and Children) were involved in the explosion in
Lagos, Nigeria, Sunday, 2 February, 2003, 18:50 GMT, which claimed many
lives and property. Unfortunately, my client and the family lost their lives
in that disaster that needed not to
have happened. Since then I have made several inquiries 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
someone abroad to assist me with the transfer, hence I contacted you.

My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client prior to his death before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits
were lodged and where the deceased had an account valued at about US$2.5
Million dollars. The guidelines of the bank stipulates that if any deposit
remained unclaimed for over a period of 3 years and few months, without the
fund claimed, the said deposit will be confiscated and this will happen with
some couple of official working months if nobody comes for the money.

The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over one year now, I seek your consent as the next of kin of
the deceased since so that the proceeds of this account valued a t US$2.5
million dollars can be paid to you for our disbursement. I will eminate all
the necessary official and legal
documents that can be used to back up your claim. All I require is your
honest co-operation to enable me as the legal attorney to the deceased in
seeing that you receive the inheritance fund.

I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to protect you from any
breach
of the law. See the 2 website of the bomb explosion below: -
http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/index_txt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm

Looking forward to hear from you soonest.

With best regards,
Barr. Kingsley House
NB: My alternative email is; kingsley4house@yahoo.co.uk \

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