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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: safi musa <safi4real@sify.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 19:29:11 +0600 (IST)
Subject: ugrgent reply



ATTN: ,

Compliments,

I know this mail may come to you as a surprise, I
got your email address through the web while in search
of who will carefully handle this urgent and hitchfree deal.

I am safi musa a bank manager with UNION BANK
PLC Ojota branch Lagos, Nigeria. I am contacting you
based on trust and confidentiality that will
be attached to this deal.

The Management and the Legal department of our BANK
(UNION BANK PLC) in a recent meeting recommended
that one of my branch depositor (customer) account
Should be declare dormant and confiscate the deposited
fund into the Bank Treasury according to Nigerian Banking
and Financial law.

He is a foreigner based in Nigeria,unfortunately he is
late. He died on a fatal plane crash 2years ago. He is
an account holder in my branch, he owns a dollars
account with the sum of Thirty-two million eight
hundred thousand united state dollars
($32,800,000.00)deposited in the account.

In fact it happened that since his death, the
next of kin of the dollar account holder has not show
up for the claim and since then nobody has come up to
make claim or to say he know anything about
the deceased except the attorney.

To cut the matter short, the attorney has no
contact of any of the deceased relations.This is
where I am interested on and this is where I want
you to come in. I want you to come in as the
relation of the deceased, I will give you the
contact of the attorney,you will have to write to
him tell him you are a relation to the deceased
and that you have found out that Engr.Vincent
Pillai has account with Union bank plc which you wants
to lay claim through his legal authority. He is going to be happy to
assist you.

I will be the one to provide the vital
documents for the claims of the money .
Please include your telephone number when replying
this mail and I will give you more information as
soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in
this transaction.

After successful conclussion of this transaction we
shall share the money 60%/40%.

Yours truly,safi musa







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