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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: victorchukwu@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 05:56:41 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HELLO=2C=20COMPLIMENTS=20OF=20THE=20SEASON=20=21=21?=

FROM: DR VICTOR CHUKWU
NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
LAGOS OFFICE COMPLEX, FALOMO IKOYI.

SUB: TRANSFER OF US$14,000,000.00 (FOURTEEN MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS
ONLY)INTO YOUR ACCOUNT.

I wish to intimate you with this proposal in my capacity as a senior accountant
and in full agreement with the auditors of this Corporation (Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation). Our duty is to scrutinize all records and the accounts
of awarded and executed contractAs for this Corporation (NNPC) during the
previous military regime. Since the inception of democratic Government in
Nigeria, we have been deligated to vet all awarded contracts during the
Military Regime. In the course of our duty, we discovered an over invoicing
of a whopping sum of US$14,000,000.00 in a suspense account of the deligated
bank which we want to transfer into your account as the contractor and beneficiary
of this funds.

This funds, US$14 Million will be approved for payment by NNPC, the Federal
Ministry of Finance, Accountant General of the Federation and to be paid
by a Bank in Nigeria under contract number: NNPC/FGN/PED/4700/98. As top
civil servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank accounts,
hence our decision to use your account in full trust and confidence to transfer
this money outside Nigeria. Moreover, it is pertinent to note that it is
100% risk free but confidential until this funds gets into your account.

We have resolved to give you 30% of the total sum for your assistance. If
you are interested in this deal, please contact me through my e-mail address
above for more detailed information. Remember to give me your phone number
and fax through which we can communicate and also to be used to send you
the approved documents for the release of the money into your bank account.

I am waiting for your favourable response with hope that you will understand
the confidential nature of this and its reality is a dream come true.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Victor Chukwu




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