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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: obinnajude91@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:29:20 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20ATTENTION?=

From MR.Ben Jude.

PROJECT INSPECTION(Petro Nig)
ATTN:
FUND TRANSFER
May I respectively invite your kind attention to the above
subject matter. Based on information gathered from a
relevant source at FEDERAL MINISTRY OF TRADE AND COMMERCE
about you, I solicit your assistance in the execution of
this business transaction. It is my sincere conviction that
you will handle this ransaction with absolute
confidentiality, maturity and utmost sense of purpose. I
wish to inform you that we have TWENTY FIVE MILLION USD
($28M),which accrued from deliberate inflated contracts
awarded by the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources from
my corporation, Petro Canada (PetroNig) during the past,
and executed by a consortium of multinational companies in
the Oil Industry. The project executed are as follows:
1)East Coast Oil oil exploration, development, production
and marketing off Aba East Coast 2)Oil Sands growing
bitumen and synthetic crude production in northeastern
Alberta, and a planned refinery conversion project at
Edmonton to upgrade and refine oil sands production 3)North
American Natural Gas exploration, production and marketing
in Western Canada, and exploration for long-term reserves
in the Mackenzie Delta, offshore Nova Scotia, and Alaska
Consequently, I humbly request your gracious assistance
towards the transfer of the above stated sum into an
account to be nominated by you. And be rest assured that
this transaction is 100% risk free. There is no risk
involved on both sides as we have covered all avenues or
risk. Feel free to ask questions.
I am also in position to link you, if you are interested
in petroleum products, including high-quality lubricants
from PetroNig . We agreed to offer you 20% of the total
amount involved for your assistance while 10% will be
mapped out to cover expenses made in course of the
transfer,kindly furnish us with the following information
so that it will enable us seek for an approval from the
high authorities and also get you all the documents that
will back you up as the real contractor and benificiary of
the fund.
(1)Name of your company and address,
(2)House address,
(3)Mobile phone number with land line(tel/fax number),
(4)Bank details and tel/fax number of your bank and address
with account number and route or aba number.
Awaiting your urgent response.
Yours faithfully,
MR.Ben Jude.





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