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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: "Dr.FRANKE HALEY" <frankhaley@colacao.es>
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 11:55:06 +0100
Subject: Please Reply Urgently

PLEASE READ THIS LETTER CAREFULLY AND REPLY ASAP.

FROM THE DESK OF: Dr.Frank Haley
DIRECTOR, PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION
FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND
SOCIAL SERVICES, ABIDJAN.
E-mail: ingodwetrust@colacao.es

Dear ,
With due respects and regards, I am Dr.Frank Haley, the DIRECTOR,
PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION FEDERAL MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES,
ABIDJAN. With all trust and pleasure, I am hereby contacting you as I
got your email contact from the Internet schedule.

Please I have a very confidencial and risk free business transaction I
will like to carryout with you, it involve the
TRANSFER OF US$65 MILLION INTO A PERSONAL/COMPANY'S OFFSHORE ACCOUNT
Based on the information gathered from the Ministry of Trade and
Industry,we intend to solicit your assistance on this transaction with
you on the assumption that you will not disappoint us. It is true we do
not know each other but i quess this transaction would bring us together
and make us know each other and become partners. I must tell you this
business is not just one of those letters outthere but i have come to you
with a real deal of very beneficial to mutual interest.

We have Sixty Five Million, United States Dollars
(US$65,000,000.00) which we made over time from over inflated contracts
in my Ministry (Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services) and have
successfully deposited in a city called IMO STATE which is outside my
country Cote d'Ivoire for safety purposes.

We are seeking your assistance and permission to remit this amount into
your account or any other nominated account you can provide for us. We
are ready to offer you a very useful percentage as gratification for
assisting us as a foreign beneficiary and work directly on the bank and
get the said fund transferred into your account.
Your commission will be 20% of the total sum, 5% for expenses that you
might make for some little tax the bank might ask before transfering.
and the remaining 75% is for my colleagues and myself.

Could you please notify me of your acceptance to carry out this
transaction urgently on the receipt of this message.
May i also at this point assure you that there is no much proceedure in
this transaction since it was wisely deposited, what we only need to do
is to get the required approval to the bank and present you as my
foreign beneficiary and then instruct the bank to treat you with full
respect and grant you any request you might sought of them and quickly
release the fund to you immediately, every arrangement would perfectly
be put in place as soon as you confirm and indicate your willingness to
assist in this transaction and also benefit yourself.

All the necessary documents that was issued by the bank and was
obtained by me on the day of deposit are all safe in my private costudy
and i shall release these documents to you as soon as you confirm your
willingness to assist. I repeat again, there is no risk to take in this
transaction since what the bank whould only need is the legal documents
that covers the fund which was issued by them and they will quickly
inform us the requirements to get our fund retransferred into a
beneficiary's account.

Before these arrangements start matching on the bank for the transfer of
the fund into your account we shall need to sign some paper like
agreement of mutual trust to enable both of us feel free of cheating
during the time of sharing. These agreement paper shall be prepare by an
Attorney.

Kindly, acknowledge the receipt of this letter by sending your private
Tel. And Fax number and also state your wish in this deal.
I shall in turn inform you of the modalities for a formal application
to secure the necessary approvals for the immediate release of this fund
into your account.

You should give me an urgent mail as soon as you receive this proposal,
my private email address is: (ingodwerust@colacao.es)

Awaiting your Urgent response for proceed.
Thanks for your co-operation.
Yours faithfull
Dr.Frank Haley





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