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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: BOLAANDERSON@ZIPMAIL.COM.BR
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 08:09:34 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AWAIT=20YOUR=20URGENT=20RESPONSE?=

FROM THE DESK OF THE CREDIT MANAGER,
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC
LAGOS,
NIGERIA.
anderson_ubng@yahoo.com
Dear Friend

I greet you in the name of GOD, the Beneficent, and the Merciful. Before
I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax
mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to
transfer fund to overseas account the sum of ($10,000.000.00 USD) Ten Million
United States Dollars) from a Bank here in Nigeria West African.
I want to ask you, If you are not capable to quietly look for a reliable
and honest person who will be capable and fit to
provide either an existing bank account or to set up a new Bank account
immediately to receive this fund, even an empty account can serve to receive
this fund, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end for this
important business, trusting in you and believing in God that you will never
let me down either now or
in future.

I AM MR BOLA ANDERSON I WORK WITH UNION BANK OF NIGERIA.PLC

During the course of our auditing last week, I discovered a floating fundin
an account opened in the bank in 1997 and since 1999 till date, nobody has
operated on this account again, after going through some old files in the
records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a beneficiary
to the account hence the money is floating and if I do not remit this fund
out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Mr. Morris Thompson, of, Alaska, an American
and a great industrialist, business leader and largest
private landowner resident of Fairbanks, Alaska, who unfortunately lost
his life in the plane crash of Alaska Airlines Flight 261 which crashed,
including his wife and only daughter leaving nobody to claim the fund.

You shall read more news about the crash on visiting this site;

<http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/>
and
<http://www.alaskaair.com/E_latest.asp>

No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the
account has no other beneficiary and my investigation
proved to me as well that the account is a secret account. The total amount
involve is Ten Million United States Dollars only [$10,000.000.00 USD]
and I wish to transfer this fund into a safe foreigners account abroad.
But I don't know any foreigner;
I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this
fund cannot be approved
to a local person here, but to a foreigner who has
information about the
account, which I shall give to you upon your positive
response. I am
revealing
this to you with believe in God that you will never let me down in this
business, you are the first and the only person that I
am contacting for this business. So, please reply urgently so that I will
inform you the next step to take urgently.

I need your strong assurance that you will never let us down, me and a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business. I guarantee that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
The bank official will destroy all documents of transaction immediately
we receive this money leaving no trace to any place. I will use my position
and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate
clearance from the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.

At the conclusion of this business, you will be given
30% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses
both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring.

Furthermore, the transaction is Risk Free, there is no risk involved and
the utmost paramount of this transaction is Secret and
Confidential due to my 15 years of meritious service with the Union
Bank of Nigeria Plc. Which I don't want it to be jeopardized.
All correspondence should be by phone or by email, I will be extremely happy
if you can abide to my instructions, I believe the sky shall be our limit
and willing to invest in your area of specialization at the end of this
transaction. Feel free to contact me directly via my email address above
or anderson_ubng@yahoo.com


Thanks for your co-operation

MR BOLA ANDERSON
UNION BANK OF NIGERIA PLC



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