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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: "Barr.Taiwo" <tamart001@tiscali.es>
Reply-To: tamart003@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:42:24 -0700
Subject: URGENT

FROM :TAIWO AND PARTNERS CHAMBER
Solicitor & Senior Advocate Of
Supreme Court Of Nigeria
(SAN)


ATTENTION:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Barr.Taiwo Martins,the Personal Attorney to late
Engineer Dahlig Mitchell, who worked with the Shell
petroleum Company in Nigeria untill his death, Hereinafter
shall be referred to as my client. On the August 6, 1997
my client was involved in a plane crash [Korean Air Flight 801]
while coming back from Easter Holiday.
Unfortunately,the whole passengers lost their lives,
since then I have made several inquiries to
locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also
proved unsuccessful. After these several unsuccessful
attempts. I am contacting you to assist in transferring the
money left behind by my client before they get claimed or
declared unserviceable by his Bank where these huge
deposits were lodged. Particularly, the United Bank For Africa
were the deceased had an Account valued at USD25
Million has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin
or have the Account declared dormant and unserviceable
within 1 month. Since I have been unsuccessful in
contacting the relatives for over two years now, I seek
your consent to present you as the next of kin to the
deceased so that the proceed of this Account valued at
USD25 Million can be paid to you and then you and I can
share the money 55% to me and 40% to you while the
remaining 5% is set aside for expenses incurred during the
course of the transfer .I have all necessary legal
documents that can be used to backup any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this business successful. I guarantee that this will be
executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect
you from any breach of the law. Indicate your firm
interest by responding to this mail as soon as possible to
enable upbeat the said time.
Best regards,
Barr.Taiwo Martins.


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