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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: nimiwoods@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 15:34:44 -0700
Subject: GET BACK TO ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

Kindly send your reply to [nimiWoods@yahoo.com].

ATTN:SIR,

I really do not want you to see this mail as a
surprise, it took me a whole lot of time to decide
on
who to TRUST and present for this claim.

Why i finally made up my mind to contact you is that while i was surffing
the Net i was able to find some
usefull information about you, that gave me the courage to contact you.

I am Mrs Nimi Woods , personal Accountant to late
Mr Stephen Taylor work with Shell-development Company
in Nigeria.
Here in after shall be referred to as my client.On
the
21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their
three children were involved in a car accident along
sagamu express road. All occupants of the Vehicle
unfortunately lost their lives.

Since then I have made several enquiries to your
embassy to locate any of my boss extended relatives
this has also proved unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, to locate
any member of his family hence I contacted you. I am
contacting you to assist in repatriating the money
and
property left behind by my client before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank
where this huge deposit were lodged.
Particularly, the bank where the deceased had an
account valued at about US20.5million dollars has
issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have
the account confiscated within the next ten official

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 3 years now I seek your consent
to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased, so
that the proceeds of this account valued at
$US20.5million dollars can be paid to you and then
you
and me can share the money.
70% to me and 30% to you Ihave all necessary
legaldocuments that can be used to
back up any claim we maymake. All I require is your
honest cooperation to
enable us see this deal through.>> I guarantee that this will be executed
under a> legitimate arrangement that will protect you from
any
breach of the law.

Please get in touch with me by my email and send to
me
your telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss
further about this transaction.


Best regards,
Mrs Nimi Woods.


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