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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: johnuba@tiscali.at
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:15:40 -0800
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS PARTNER FOR A LUCRATIVE BUSINESS VENTURE

FROM THE DESK OF:
MR JOHN UBA
MANAGER STANDARD TRUST BANK
LAGOS.NIGERIA
PRIVATE E-MAIL ADDRESS: johnuba@hotmail.com

I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue of
its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know that
a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. Let me
start by first introducing myself properly to you.

I am JOHN UBA a MANAGER with the STANDARD TRUST Bank Nigeria LTD. Lagos.I
came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable person
to handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of
a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.

THE PROPOSITION: A foreigner, Late Engineer Johnson Creek, an Oil
Merchant/Contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death
nine years ago in
a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Standard Trust Bank LTD. Lagos,
and had a closing balance ofUS$38.5M (Thirty Eight Million, Five Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects
it to be claimed by any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late
beneficiary or alternatively be donated to a discredited trust fund for
arms and
ammunition at a military war college here in Nigeria. Fervent valuable efforts
are
being made by the Standard Trust Bank to get in touch with any of the Creek

family or relatives but proved to avail.

It is because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any
of Late Engr. Johnson Creeks next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children)
that the management underthe influence of our chairman and member of the
board of directors, that an arrangement be made for the funds to be declared
UNCLAIMABLE and subsequently be donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and
Ammunition to further enhance the course of war in Africa and the world
in general.
In order to avert this negative Development, some of my trusted colleagues
and I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late
Engr. Johnson Creek so that the funds US$38.5M would be released and paid
into your bank account, as the beneficiary?s next-of-kin. All documents
and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully worked out and
more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free involvement.

Your 35% share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues and myself
for investment purposes in your country.

If this proposal is OK by you, then kindly get to me immediately via the
above e-mail furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax number
and exclusive bank particulars so that I can use these information to apply
for the releaseand subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor.

Thank you in co-operation

Yours faithfully.
MR JOHN UBA
MANAGER, STANDARD TRUST BANK LTD LAGOS

N/B: PLEASE ENDEAVOUR TO SEND YOUR PROMPT RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE EMAIL
ADDRESS
:johnuba@hotmail.com





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