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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: "victor onyekachi " <onyekachi_ums010@handbag.com>
Reply-To: victor45_7@bumerang.ro
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:58:09 +0000
Subject: We need your honest co-operation

Barister Victor Onyekachi Esq Principal Partner
Victor Onyekachi & Associates Chambers(legal practionner/advocates)
Lome Togo.

Dear Friend,

As it may be of your keen interest, I am Barister Victor
Onyekachi,a solicitor at law, personal attorney to Mr Hamed
Abdel Wahab Ahmed a contractor with Shell Oil Development
Company S.A.R.L in Lome Togo, Here in after referred to as
my client. who on aboard EgyptAir Flight 990, which crashed
into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31,1999 Ref. website
http://www.cnn.com/US/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
and unfortunately lost his life.

Before his accidental death, he left his WILL with this
Chambers requesting that his FUND(U.S.$2,500,000.00) with a
BANK in LOME- TOGO here be shared among Philantropists
abroad in the event of his death. This Chambers have in a
meeting resolved to carefully draw up a random pool of
unknown Names and their E-Mail Addresses gotten from a
variety of WEBSITES across Africa,America,Asia and Europe
to determine the beneficiary of this WILL.

It is our pleasure to inform you that you were picked in a
carefully RANDOM draw picked by a SEVEN YEAR OLD girl from
the DIRECTORS OF FEDERAL BOARD OF INLAND REVENUE that
supervised the DRAW.

Having received repeated NOTICES from the BANK to provide
the beneficiary to this FUND(U.S.$2.5M) after the late
family of Mr.Hamed Abdel Wahab Ahmed had withdrawn what was
left for them in the WILL at the BANK immediately after
the Crash through this Chambers.We request you to indicate
your willingness to accept this offer before it is too
late, moreso, this Chambers have been duely informed by the
BANK that this money stands to be transfered to the FEDERAL
TREASURY if we do not provide the beneficiary shortly from
now.

On the receipt of your positive response, we shall firstly
discuss on the sharing ratio and proceed from there. Be
informed that all necessary legal procedures will be
strictly followed to back up the Claim by this Chambers,
hence we had to invite the Federal Board of Inland Revenue
in the first place to supervise the RANDOM DRAW, in which
you were successful.

We need your honest co-operation while we guarantee you
100% success in this transaction where you are ready to
co-operate with this CHAMBERS

Thanks in anticipation of your co-operation and positive
reply.

PLEASE LET ALL CORRESPONDENCE NOW TO BE SENT THROUGH
THIS E MAIL=victor45_7@bumerang.ro

Best Regards.

Barister Victor Onyekachi Esq.

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