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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: "Emma Ojei" <emma_ojei11@tiscali.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: emma_ojei2001@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 05:21:29 -0700
Subject: GOOD NEWS!
EMMA & ASSOCIATES
SOLICITORS AND ADVOCATES
#99 isolo st. Lagos, Nigeria.
Tal:234-802-359-3261
Dear Friend,
I am Barrister Emma Ojei, a Solicitor and the personal Attorney to Mr.
James Glenn a national of your country, who worked with Shell Development Company in Nigeria.
On the 10th of January 2002, my Client,his wife and two children were involved in a car accident along Port-Harcourt / Warri Express Road. Unfortunately they All lost their lives in the event of the accident, since then I have made several enquiries at your Embassy here to locate any of my Client's relatives, this has proved unsuccessful. After these abortive attempts I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, but of no avail.
I am contacting you to assist in repartriating the money and property left behind by my client before they get confiscated or his bank accounts be declared unserviceable by his bankers, particularly,the Bank where the deceased had an account valued at about $9million dollars. The Bank has issued me a notice to provide them with my late Client's Next of kin or have the account confiscated within the next fourteen (14) banking days. Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 1 years now, I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased since you are from the same Country so that the proceeds of this account valued at $9 million dollars can be paid to you.
I propose that when the fund (US$9m) is eventually paid into your bank
account, that it shall be disbursed in the following order, 60% to me
and 30% to you, while 10% shall beset aside to off-set all expenses at both ends and tax as your government may demand. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back up this claim as they shall be obtained from the Federal High Court here without contravening the Nigeria laws. 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 to enable us discuss further and send me your telephone and fax numbers too.
Best regards,
Barrister Emma Ojei.
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