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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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• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • atm_paymentng@sify.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "WBIMFFBIPT DEPT" <wbwings33@ldsliving.com>
Reply-To: atm_paymentng@sify.com
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:01:11 -0700
Subject: IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND VIA ATM SWIFT CARD


INCOLLBORATION WITH THE WORLD DELEGATIONS
IN DEBT SETTLEMENT SCHEME
WEST AFRICAN REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


ATTN: BENEFICIARY,

IMMEDIATE RELEASE OF YOUR FUND VIA ATM SWIFT CARD.

In close consultation with the World Bank, IMF,FBI and the European Union
(EU), on the meeting with concerning inheritance/contract and other related
payment we are to notify you of your enlistment as a beneficiary of a recent
Debt Management and Settlement Forum organized on the status of global
arrangement to have your beneficiary fund settled once and for all. Of
course, In the hope that you must have been aware of the past financial
leakages in the European, Africa and many other foreign inheritance payment
system, and frustrations associated there from the last attempt to claim
your fund, fund of beneficiaries (like your self) was subjected to
unnecessary bureaucratic bottlenecks in lieu of claiming funds due to them.

Having solicited and received the cooperation of Nigerian Presidency, in
harmonizing the sequence of payments, have discovered from records of
outstanding foreign inheritance fund of beneficiaries, that your name and
payment has been with held and remain unpaid as a result of such bottleneck.
On the prompting of this finding, I wish to officially notify you that all
aspects of your payment claim is being harmonized, enabling payment to be
released to you as urgently as you act on the instructions of this mail.

Consequently, Oceanic Nigeria Plc has been directed by the World Body to off
set these outstanding debts, using ATM Swift Card payment arrangement.
Already, a total amount of USD500 Million has been provided to the bank for
this purpose and it is on first come first serve. With this arrangement, I
wish to inform you that Oceanic bank Nigeria Plc has been instructed to
issue in your name an Atm Cash Card with the valued amount ofUSD4.5M. In
paying this amount to you, please note that it is without Prejudice to your
original inheritance sum. Rather, it is a stop-gap payment arrangement put
in place by the World Body to ensure that you receive part of your fund,
while on the other hand ensure that the process is smooth and without any
form of stress whatsoever.

However, we are worried with the counter information received from one Mr.
Casey Collins , purporting to be from your directive, with express
instruction to activate the ATM Cash Card for release of fund to his name to
a bank account in the "Cayman Islands" Obviously, we are hesitant to honor
this instruction as it were, and would request that you clarify same upon
your contact with Oceanic bank Nigeria Plc . In addition to that, you should
provide the bank with the following details to forestall any mistake of
issuing the ATM Card with the wrong information already submitted.

(1) Your full names, address, phone, fax and Cell numbers
(2)Your full name for activation of your ATM CARD.
(3) Your address where to send the card
(4) Your age and current occupation

We Believe this arrangement will suit your condition and expectations, there
you are hereby advised to contact Oceanic bank Nigeria Plc.

Contact person Dr Patrick Ndu
Appointed Director Atm Payment Dept
Email address: atm_paymentng@sify.com

Faithfully Yours,
MR .DAVID MUELLER, III
FOR COROPORATE AFFAIRS
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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