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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: "davies omotayo" <daviesomotayo17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: omotayo@uku.co.uk
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:38:12 +0000
Subject: Reply for your help!

Good Day to you!

I am soliciting for business proposal to make with you. I do seriously need
your help
because I am disabled from a motor accident and I cannot travel abroad on a
Doctor,s
orders. I was an Oil consultant based in the United Kingdom, and because I
helped a
lot of foreign CrudeOil Companies to get Crude Oil Lifting Rights and
lucrative Oil
Contracts from Nigeria, I was able to amass a fortune worth USD39.7million.
On
20th September 2005, I left UK finally with my family, and came back to
Nigeria.

But because of the unfavourable political and economic climate in my
country, and
for security reasons, I left my money total USD39.7million in a Security
Safe
Deposit Vault. On 2nd February 2006, I and my whole family was involved in
a
very bad accident on our way home to our Village at Enugu, about 100 km
from
Port Harcourt; I lost my entire family in the accident, and I myself fell
into a coma
since then. I eventually recovered from coma, and was discharged from the
hospital
forth night later. I have no money with which to sponsor any one in Nigeria
to
undertake the trip for me; in any case ,my extended family here abandoned me
in
hospital when they realized that the money which I came back with had been
spent
on hospital bills. I am currently living on the charity of the church. And
now, I need
your help to collect this money that i deposited and invest it in a
profitable venture
abroad. I cannot bring in this money into Nigeria for fear of seizure by the
Government.If the money is properly and profitably invested abroad, I intend
to leave
Nigeria permanently.
Can I count on your help? If you agree to help me, I will send you by
courier the
ELECTRONIC CARD KEY of my vault so that you can travel and open the vault.
For your help and assistance, you will keep 30% of the money for your self
and keep
70% for me in safe custody until I travel to meet you and invest my share.
If you
agree to help me, please reply giving me the following information:

1.Your Complete name and Street (POSTAL) address
2.Your Phone and fax number, including mobile
3.Your confidential email address.

Regards,
Davies Omotayo

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