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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: rayjohn@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 02:37:28 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?HOW=20ARE=20DOING=20TODAY=3F?=




Re: BIZ OFFER.

Greetings,

I am Mr.Raymond Johnson the Director, Foreign Contract Payment Department
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).

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 military regime for his personal purse but unfortunately for him,
he was unable to transfer this fund to his purse before the emergence of
this present civilian administration.

I discovered this amount from the manifest recently which 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. Your Co-operation is highly required for this project, note that
you will be entitled to share 30% of the fund, 60% for me and 10% has been
mapped out for any incidental expenses incurred in the process of the transfer.

This Deal is 100% covered from any form of enquiry, the approvals obtained
will be dispatch to you, informing you extensively the progress on the transfer.
You are requested to send the following information urgently to commence
action on the transfer:


(1.)Personal name and Address (4.) Office Telephone/Fax No. (5.) Mobile
Phone / Residential Phone No:

I have successfully worked out a solution to effect transfer within seven
(7) working days. Finally, Note a High Degree of Trust and Confidentiality
is required from both parties. Looking forward to your timely response.


Your urgent reply is highly anticipated.

Best Regards,

Mr. Raymond Johnson
HOW ARE DOING TODAY?





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