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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.ALEX AKINYELE" <nohem@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: noheem_ld101@walla.com
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 05:47:16 +0200
Subject: IT MY PLEASURE TO MEET YOU

FROM THE DESK OF DR.ALEX AKINYELE
NIGERIA PRESIDENCY,
FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY,
ABUJA.
NIGERIA
Email:noheem_ld@rediff.com
noheem_ld101@walla.com

I am Dr.Alex Akinyele a member of the Presidential Payment Verification
Committee (PPVC) of the Federal Government Of Nigeria, West Africa and
also a Director of Project Implementation with the Federal Ministry of
Finance(FMF). I am presently in London to carry out routine verification
of contractual claims on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Finance(FMF).

I apologized for using this medium to reach you for a transaction/business of this magnitude, but this is due to Confidentiality and prompt access reposed on this medium.In unfolding this proposal, I want to count on you,as a respected and honest person to handle this transaction with sincerity,trust and confidentiality.

I have decided to seek a confidential co-operation with you in the process of actualising our dreams described hereunder. For the benefit of all parties and hope you will keep it in confidence because of the nature of this transaction within the Ministry of Finance(FMF), where I work as Director of Project Implementation.

With the cooperation of four other top officials, we have in our possession overdue payment bills which we are presently verifying, to the tune of Twenty Six Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars (US$26,500,000.)which we want to transfer abroad with the assistance and cooperation of a foreign company/individual to receive the said fund on our behalf or a reliable foreign non-company account to receive such funds.

More so, we are handicapped in the circumstances, as the Civil Service Code of Conduct does not allow us to operate offshore account hence your importance in the whole transaction.This amount $26.5m represents the balance of the total contract value executed on behalf of the Nigerian National Petroleum Resources (NNPC) by a foreign contracting firm, which we the officials over-invoiced deliberately in the course of our verification exercise.
Though the actual contract cost have been paid to the original contractor,leaving the balance in the tune of the said amount which we have in principle gotten approval to remit by Key Tested Telegraphic Transfer (K.T.T) to any foreign bank account you will provide by filing in an application through the Ministry of Finance for the transfer of Rights and Privileges to the contractual sum to you/your account.

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that should you be willing to assist us in the transaction,your share of the sum would be 30% of the $26.5million, 60% for us and 10% for taxation and miscellaneous expenses.
The business itself is 100% safe, on your part provided you treat it withutmost secrecy and confidentiality.
Your area of specialization is not a hindrance to the successful execution of this transaction.

I have reposed my confidence in you and hope that you would not disappoint me.Endeavor to contact me immediately by e-mail should you be interested or not in this transaction.
If not, it would enable me time to scout for another credible foreign partner of note to help carry on this transaction, as my time here in Nigeria has to sufficiently backed with reasons.

I assure you that my partners and I are in a position to make the payment of this claim possible provided you can give us a very strong assurance and guarantee that our share would be secured and please always remember to treat this matter with the utmost confidentiality, as any form of exposure would compromise our positions in this government, being active Government Civil Servants.

Once again, remember time is of great essence in this transaction.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Alex Akinyele

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