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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: edwardswright@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 06:03:55 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20Business=20Transaction?=

Urgent Business Transaction

From the desk of
Mr. Edwards Wright
Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Falomo Complex, Ikoyi-Lagos, Nigeria

Dear friend,

Urgent Business Transaction

I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this letter will definitely
come to you as a surprise; I actually came about your contact when I was
browsing through the Internet searching for a reliable, trustworthy and
confidential partner who can transact this business with us.

I am the chairman of the Contract Review/Audit Committee scrutinizing all
record covering executed contract awarded by previous military government
of Nigeria. My colleagues and I have uncovered a floating amount of USD$22,500,000.00
(Twenty-Two Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars), without
a clear beneficiary owing to a deliberate act of over invoicing and inflating
of contract value by some past government officials.

This money (USD$22.5M), has already been approved for payment by the Federal
Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and is secured under Contract
number: MMPS/FGN/1233/MMPS-X29/98, Job Completion Certificate No: 6770024MMPS/C
OF 17th Oct. 1998.

As top civil servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank account
and this is why we want to use your bank account to transfer this money
outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner and will now
regularize approvals to you as the trust beneficiary of the contract sum.

As soon as we receive your acceptance, we shall inform you of the necessary
requirements from you to facilitate transfer. We have resolved to give you
20% of the total sum as compensation for your assistance, 70% is for me
and my partners here in Nigeria, 10% is set aside to cover every expenses
made in the course of the transaction.

Note that this should be confidential. Send your urgent response through
my alternative email: edswright@yahoo.com including your private phone and
fax numbers for easy communication on the subject matter.

I am awaiting your immediate reply

Thank you.

Yours truly,
Mr. Edwards Wright
Alt email: edswright@yahoo.com



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