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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: "DR. PETER BROWN" <drpeterbrown@tiscali.it> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:17:30 -0700
Subject: JOINT VENTURE

NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION
FROM. The Desk OF: DR. PETER BROWN
DIRECTOR PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION(NNPC)
2OTH DEC 2004
e-mail Riply; drpeterbrown@tiscali.it

JOINT VENTURE

Compliment of the season.

I strongly apologize for this unsolicited mail, but I am constrained by
circumstances surrounding my profession .I have the mandate of my
colleagues in office to solicite for your assistance for a deal we want
to execute

The business involves the remittance of US$18.6M(eighteen million and
six hundred thousand United States Dollars) to your bank account from
the Central Bank of Nigeria. The money accrued through deliberate
over-invoicing of old projects executed for the Government by some
foreign firms. I and few officials here have worked out a scheme to benefit us
along with any foreign partner who obliges us the materials and channel
to push out the fund, our idea being to come over thereafter to share
the fund with whoever assist us.

To make things easy and legal, the fund is reflecting in our records as
payable to a foreigner who did a consultancy service job for the
ministry during the turn around maintenance of one our petroleum
refinery. All necessary and relevant documents will be procured for the release and
transfer of the fund into your nominated account

Please get in touch with me immediately through my email
address:drpeterbrown@tiscali.it; and attention the undersigned. For
your participation in realizing this transaction 20% will be for you,70% for
me and other officials and 10% for any expense we may incur (both
parties) during processing for the transfer to your nominated bank
account.

I am awaiting your response most urgently and is rest assured that this
transaction is 100% risk free, as there is no risk involved on both
sides.Thank you and God bless.
e-mail Riply;drpeterbrown@tiscali.it

I Wll be waiting for your mail.

Kind Regards

Dr PETER BROWN

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