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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: "John Uche" <ogeri_3@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 06:59:31 +0100
Subject: urgent
PLEASE REPLY TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS johnuche005@yahoo.com <mailto:johnuche005@yahoo.com>
Dearest,
I strongly believe that this message would come to you as a surprise. In fact, it is in respect of the strict confidence given to me that you are honest and versatile in business that motivated My interest to seek your co-operation on a transaction.
Really I got your contact through internet as a capable and reliable foreigner who will help I and my family to do this transaction.
My father is late Chief Chukwuma Uche. He was the chairman of Nigeria Petroleum Monitoring Committee (NPMC). Sadly, he died after illness on October 2002 and he was buried in our hometown on November 17th, 2002.
As you might have known, petroleum is the major revenue source in Nigeria. My father made a lot of money through the job but could not invest the money immediately to avoid probe by the government. He was able to save the sum of $32,000,000.00(Thirty Two Million United States Dollars). He deposited this sum with a security firm.
The documents used in these depositions, together with the key of the safe, are with my mother. In my father's will, he instructed that this money must be invested overseas with the help of a foreigner who is reliable and trustworthy, so as to avoid probe by the federal government of Nigeria since he was a civil servant and could not have amassed such wealth legally.
Consequently, I now seek for your co-operation. I will like you to come down to Nigeria so that we can open a domiciliary account with your name here in Nigeria and then you can deposit the money into the domiciliary account for transfer to any foreign account which you will provide. You and I will then travel to your country together for the sharing of the money.
My mother and me have agreed to give 25% of the total sum to you while 70% will be for Me and my mother, then, the remaining 5% will be used to offset the bills incurred in the Course of the transfer.
If you cannot come down to Nigeria, we can still improvise another means of Transferring this money into your foreign account.
You can contact me if you are interested in this business on my phone number 234 8023589830 for more details.
Thanks for your co-operation.
PRINCE JOHN UCHE
(For the family).
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