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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: solomonbriggs1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:02:27 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HELLO=2E?=

ATTN SIR;


(TRANSFER OF USD21, 500,000.00(TWENTY-ONE MILLION, FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND
U.S DOLLARS ONLY TO A SAFE ACCOUNT)
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I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as Chief Accountant and
in full agreement with the Auditor-General of this company (Nigerian LiquefiedNatural
Gas). We scrutinized all records and accountsof Awarded and executed contracts
of this company(NLNG) during the previous military regimes since the inception
of democracy in Nigeria and carefully uncovered and mapped out a whopping
sum ofUSD21.5M which we want to transfer into your account as the beneficiary.

It might interest you to know that Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas came into
full working capacity during the inception of current civilian dispensation
at a working/asset capacity of USD3Billion and will defiantly gulp more
USD 2Billion on the completion of the fifth part. You can authentically
apply for supply if it interest you to be our client with full guarantee
from me.The money USD21.5M has been approved for payment by this company
NLNG, Federal ministry of Finance (endorsed by the Accountant General of
the Federation) and to be paid by the Apex bank of Nigeria under contract
number NLNG/FGN/FMF/CBN/C987/01.

As top civil servant, we are not authorized to operateforeign bank account
hence our decision to use youraccount on full trust and confidence to transfer
this money outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner
and will regularize the approvals to reflect you as the true beneficiary
of the contract Sum USD21.5M(Twenty-one million, Five Hundred ThousandU.S.Dollars
Only).More over, it is pertinent to note that it is not risk and does not
required much engagements since we have taken care of the deal in full capacity.
We have resolved to give you 25% of the total sum for your assistance.

If you are interested in this deal, please contact me immediately you receive
this message through my direct emai(solomonbriggs@surimail.com)for more
lively informations.I am anxiously waiting for your response with hope that
you understand the confidential nature of this transfer.

Yours faithfully,

Engr.Solomon Briggs.



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