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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: walterwilliams@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:57:19 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?WITH=20TRUST?=

Dear Sir

REQUEST FOR URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS
RELATIONSHIP

Please permit me to introduce myself to you, my
name are Mr .Walter Williams,a chartered accountant
with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
and a member of the International contract award
committee of theabove corporation, which is under
the Federal Ministry of Petroleum and Natural
Resources.

CONFIDENTIAL
THE SOURCE OF THE FUND IS AS FOLLOWS:With the
assistance of some senior officials of the Federal
Ministry of Finance and Office of the accountant
General of the Federation, we want to quietly
transfer the sum of FIFTEEN Million US Dollars only
($15mUS Dollars only) out of my country Nigeria.
This US$15M US Dollars was quietly over-estimated
on the contract for Turn
Around Maintenance (TAM)of Kaduna refinery in
Nigeria (NORTHERN NIGERIA) and the Rehabilitation
of Petroleum Pipelines, Depot and Jetties.

The actual contract value of this said project
was US$160M US Dollars,but my colleagues and I
eliberately increased the contract to our own
benefit to the tune of $175M US Dollars, of which
the over-estimated value of US$15M US Dollars
belongs to us and this amount is what we want to
secretly transfer into your personal or company
account for safe keeping and sharing.
The Federal Government and the Federal Ministry
of Petroleum and Natural Resources have approved
the total sum of US$175 Million US Dollars.
The project has been completed and commissioned by
the Federal Government and the original contractors
have been paid their Contractual sum and what is
left now is the US$15Million US Dollars.
Under
this circumstance and upon your acceptance we
will register You/your Company as a sub-contractor
to the original contractors with my corporation, so
that this fund can be transferred into your account
without hitch whatsoever.
Our reasons of soliciting your assistance to
transfer this fund to your account is owing to the
policy of the Federal Government of
Nigeria,the code conduct debars us civil servants
(Government Workers) from operating a foreign
account, hence we seeking your assistance.

After several deliberations with my colleagues,
we decided to give you 15% as your entitlement for
your assistance for providing your account,while
80% will be for us and the remaining 5% would be
used to offset all local /foreign expenses that
might be incurred in this transaction.However this
is based on the ground that you would assure me of
the following:

1 That after the successful transfer of the $15m
us dollars into your account, you will give us our
own fare share of 80% without running away with the
money or setting on it to our detriment.
2 That you will treat this business with
utmost secrecy, Confidentiality,understanding and
sincerity,which this business demands.
3 You will assist us (by way of advice) to invest
our own share in business venture in your
country.
4 Upon your acceptance of this proposal,
KINDLY FORWARD YOUR TELEPHONE AND FAX NUMBER AND
YOUR BANK INFORMATION to me also.

PLEASE NOTE: that this business is 100% risk free
and will not implicate you in any way, sir.Finally
please if you feel you cannot do this business with
us, kindly delete this message from your computer
or destroy it as it will do you no good showing it
to a third party or anybody whatsoever,please
kindly do us this favor for God sake.
I will also want you to reply me through my
direct email[walter_williams41@yahoo.com],
Sincerely yours.

Mr.Walter Williams

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