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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: danjuma_reginald@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:11:08 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?LETTER?=

From the Desk of: The Chairman
Contract Award and Implementation Committee
PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL
RE: TRANSFER OF US$15.6M

I am Mr.Reginald Danjuma, Chairman Contract Award andImplementation Committee
in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). My dutyincludes awards
of contracts, vetting same and making payments on behalf of my corporation
(NNPC) alongside the Chief Accountants and Directors of Audit.

SUBJECT: After due consideration, we have fully agreed to privately invest
extensively in your country. I am intending to resign from Government services
to private business with some other officials of my

Ministry as partners. I got your esteemed particulars through a private
search on the internet. So I decided to write you for an urgent business
proposal. I have specifically been mandated to arrange with you for terms
of trade and possible transfer of the funds needed for the investment into
your company's account or personal account.

This funds were incurred from an over invoiced contract awarded to an American
firm in USA during the regime of Late Gen. Sani Abacha. The original value
of these contracts were purposely over estimated by us the Tenders Board
Committee to the tune of US$15.6M(Fifteen million,six hundred thousand dollars
only.) Now that the firm have received their payment fully, we want to
transfer the over invoiced sum to your
company's account and privately invest in any profitable form of
business.The US$15.6M has since been approved for payment/remittance among
other payments that have been made. This money is now floating in the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as a redundant fund waiting to be claimed.

Becasuse of our new Federal Government Decree on CivilServants, we officials
are not allowed to own a company or operate a foreign account.Therefore,
I solicit your help to remit this funds into your company's account pending
when we come over for the sharing.
To enable us process and remit this fund into your bank account
successfully within 10 banking days from the day of your response, we
need the following information from you by a return mail,
Beneficiary's name.
Yourt telephone and fax number.
Your bank particulars including your bank's name, address,Tel, Fax
numbers.

Note that as soon as we receive this information, it will be forwarded to
the appropriate quarters for final processing and approvals. With thismodality,it
makes it possible for your company to act as a subsidiary of the original
firm; and when satisfied by the agencies, your bank account will be credited
via Telegraphic Transfer by the Telegraphic Transfer Department of the Central
Bank of Nigeria within 48 hours through (CBN correspondent bank).

This transfer is 100% risk-free having done all the underground works locally
for the smooth transfer of the fund into your bank account withinthe shortest
period. I advice that you should keep this business a topsecret and rest
all correspondences to email and phone only because I amoccupying a sensitive
position in the government circle and also this is once in a life time opportunity.

Finally, I want you to assure me that you will work on my instructions and
that our own share of the money will be safe. We have jointly agreed toreward
you with 35% of the total sum for your honest assistance and co-operation
while 65% will be for my colleagues and I.

Indicate your interest urgently .

Best regards.
Mr.Reginald Danjuma.



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