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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: rexmuka@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 14:58:59 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?From=20Henry?=




Greetings!

I know that this will sound like a (SCAM) as many article publications has
been publicized over the medias by the Nigeria government under this present
civilian administration in order to discourage foreigner (like you) in assisting
junior government officials in money transfer business; due to the fact
that this has been normal practices here in Nigeria by top government officials
in transferring government funds into their accounts for personal use. If
you are convert with world news; you will agree with me that past head of
states with their top officials and even the present civilian administration
are seriously loathing Nigeria treasuring, that is why Nigeria is rated
by the transparency international as number two corrupt nations in the world.


I am Mr. Rex Muka personal assistance to the Director, Projects and Auditing
Department of Federal Ministry of Agriculture. I wish to express my willingness
to transfer an overdue contract sum of US$32,000,000.00 to your Company's
Account or Personal Account, through the presidency of Nigeria resulting
from debt of contract & services rendered to agricultural development project
(ADP) in Niger Delta .
This money emanated from over invoicing in a contract awarded to a foreign
firm, for supply and installation of Agricultural Equipments and Fertilizers
to Agricultural Development Project (ADP) by the former minister of agriculture
under the last tenor of this democratically civilian administration for
his personal purse but unfortunately for him, he was unable to transfer
this fund to his purse before this newly elected minister.

I discovered this amount from the manifest recently that this fund is still
floating without any claim and I decided to secure a payment authority to
authenticate the transfer for my personal purse by using a foreigner(like
you) to apply for the release of this over invoiced contract payment for
the benefit of us all. This Deal is 100% covered from any form of enquiry,
because all vital documents will be secured and payment approvals obtained
will be dispatch to you, informing you extensively the progress on the transfer.


Finally, Note a High Degree of Trust and Confidentiality is required from
both parties.

I will appreciate your response on this proposal as soon as you receive
this mail; so as to enable me elucidate you on the procedure on how we can
achieve this once in a life time opportunity.


Your urgent reply is highly anticipated.

Best Regards,

Mr. Rex Muka




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