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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: iyk.willington@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 05:47:06 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?can=20i=20trust=20you=20sir?=

Dear sir

I am Mr.iyk willington,a banker with intercontinental
bank plc. I happen be an account officer to Mr.williams.
Mirecki a national of your country, who used to work
with a multi-national Company in Nigeria. On the
21st of june 2001, my client,
his wife and their only daughter were involv
ed in a car accident along Kano/Kaduna,express road
in which all occupants of the vehicle unfortunately
lost their lives.

Since then the bank and I personally, have made sever
al enquiries to your embassy here to locate any of my
clients extended relatives, this has also proved unsu
ccessful.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I
decided to track his last name over the Internet,who
I can present as the next of kin for our mutual benef
it hence I contacted you.I have contacted you to assi
st me in recovering the fund valued
at US$45.5 million left behind by my client before it
gets confisicated or declared unserviceable by our
bank where this huge amount was deposited.
According to banking policy here,any account that is
not serviced within three years without a pre-notice
from the account owner to the bank will have that acc
ount declared unservicable and what ever in the account
confisicated by bank.

Since I have been unsuccesfull in locating the
relatives for over two years now, I seek your consent
to present you as the next of kin to the deceased since
you have the same last names with my client as the bank
ing policy implies here for qualification in this kind
of claim,so that the proceeds of this account can be paid
to you for our mutual benefit.

on receipt of your positive response,we shall then discuss
the sharing ratio of disbursement of the fund after
successful claim and mode of claim/transfer. I have all
necessary information and legal documents needed for us to
make this claim in a risk-free atmosphere.
All I require from you is your honest cooperation to
enable us see this transaction through. I guarantee
that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of
the law.
I will also want to invest what ever aggreed percentage
to come to me in your country considering my position as
a civil servant to avoid suspicion.
Please contact me on my EMAIL above or via my
alternative e-mail[iyk_willington@yahoo.com]

iyk willington




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