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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: "Enginr musa watara" <musa_watara@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: engi_musa@post.cz
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 19:53:00 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL

ATTN: CEO,

REQUEST FOR URGENT TRANSFER OF THE SUM OF FIFTEEN MILLION THREE
HUNDRED

THOUSAND DOLLARS {US$15,300,000.00} ONLY, INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

Compliment of the season.

I am the Deputy Director of finance, foreign payment approval dept. of
West

African Monetary Control Board (WAMCB). North-West Regional office
Burkina

Faso. My office oversee all developmental projects financed by the
Economic

Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Within this zone (Burkina
Faso, Niger, Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana andGuinea).

With reference to an introduction and recommendation of you by a
friend
who
works in the Burkina Faso Chambers of Commerce and Industry, I do
hereby,

Wish to commence talk with you on a highly confidential level. After
due

consultations with my colleagues, We have decided to contact you in
order
to
arrange for a possible transfer of the sum of Fifteen million three
hundred

thousand dollars (US$15.300.000.00) into your account. This money is a
subject of an over inflated sum acquired from contracts awarded by my
Agency

in the past years.

The original contractors have however, been paid and all projects
executed

by them commissioned. This over inflated amount can not be withdraw
locally

from the paying Bank because the contractors concerned are foreign
Firms.
As
a matter of trust, honesty andsecrecy, we have decided to contact you
as
to assist us provide an
account for this transaction if you have accepted to assist and fully
participate
in
this transaction, kindly furnish us with the necessary information such
as
Bank address, Account number, Account name and your full address.

With this information provided, the said sum will be transfer to your
account without difficulties. The terms of sharing the money after a
successful transfer will be discuss as you indicate your interest in
assisting to transfer this money.

Immediately all these information gets to us, we will then present
every

document to the paying bank. Be rest assured with our connections,
everything
will be through within a short time.

After many years of meticulous services to the government and people of
our
sub region we would not want our image to be dented. Therefore we
expect
you
to handle this transaction with utmost maturity by keeping everything
secret. I can assure you that if ourinstructions are carefully adhered
to,
there will not be any hitch
through out the transaction, there is no risk on your side, because we
have

perfected the deal very well over years.

After the transfer, we will be coming over to your country for further
sharing and possible investments.

I'm waiting to hear from you urgently through the telephone number
below
or
mail me back ASAP.

Engnr.MUSA WATARA .
00226 70 11 11 16

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