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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: ezenwata2003@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:10:42 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YUSUF=20SULEMAN=20NNPC?=

THE DESK OF DR YUSUF SULEIMAN
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM
COROPERATION (NNPC)
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX
IKOY LAGOS NIGERIA
Reply to this alternative E-email:(dryusufsuleiman1010@yahoo.com)

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS TRANSACTION.
Naturally, this letter will come as a surprise since we have not met. I
am chief Accountant to Nigeria national petroleum corporation (NNPC). I
am making this contact with you based on satisfactory information gather
from the foreign trade office of Nigerian chamber of commerce. I am interested
in commencing a business relationship with you.
I hereby solicit for you assistance to transfer fund totaling Twenty three
millions, seven hundred and six thousand United State Dollars ($23.706M).
only into your Bank account overseas. The fund is presently in the NNPC
account with central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This fund resulted from over-invoice
contracts executed in (NNPC) during the last Military administration. However,
the original contractor have been paid the actual worth of contract, leaving
the over invoice which I am seeking for your assistance to be transferred
into your account. This fund has been floating in NNPC account with CBN
for many years now.
What are you to do is to act as the owner of this fund, sequel to the development
and couple with the fact that civil servants are not permitted by law to
operate foreignaccount. If your account can not contain this amount or your
bank or country can notaccept the amount you still let me know so that after
getting an approval from the appropriate offices concerned, we can then
arrange for it to be paid to you cash to enable you export goods with the
fund to your country so that there will be no suspectof kind and after the
sales the goods you exported I then come for my share. On receipt of your
positive response, I will send Via E-mail application Letter proving you
owner of the fund and send back to you which I will use it to obtain approval
from NNPC for the transfer of the fund.
I will authorize my office to pay your company in guise that your company
executed contract with NNPC during the last administration, which has not
beenpaid to you.You will adequately compensated, i.e 25% for you as the
account owner, 65% for me and my colleagues and 10% for any expenses that
may arise into this transaction. I assure that this business is safe and
absolutely risk free and you should not entertain fearof any kind. Thank
you very much as I wait in anticipation of yourfull co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
DR YUSUF SULEIMAN














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