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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: mrabeljegede@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 18:17:40 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Inheritance=20Opportunity=2EFrom=20Barrister=20Ebel=20Jegede=2E?=

FROM BARRISTER EBEL JEGEDE
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
PLOT 92,RAJI-RASAKA ESTATES
IKEJA-LAGOS-NIGERIA.
EMAIL:mrabeljegede@zipmail.com.br

Greetings,

First i will like to aplogize for using the media to get across to you for
such a matter that is of great confidentiality and urgent and also considering
the amount involve.

I am Barrister.Abel Jegede (SAN) attorney at law, my client Engr Edward
Hoffman who used to work with Eleme Construction & Development Company here
in Nigeria herein after shall be referred to as my client.My client was
involved in the explosion in Lagos, Nigeria, on January 27, 2002 which claim
many lives and property. Unfortunately, my client and his family lost their
lives in that disaster that needed not to have happened.

Since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my clients extended
relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these Several unsuccessful
attempts, I decided to contact you to present you as the next of kin to
enable us have this funds tranfered into your account for our personal us
instead of having the company confiscated the funds. My purpose of contacting
you is to assist in epatriating the money left behind by my client prior
to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the
company where this huge deposits were lodged in, where the deceased had
an account valued at about US$8.550 Million dollars.

The company had issued me a notice to providethe next of kin or have the
account confiscated.Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
I now seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased
so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$8.550 million dollars
can be paid to you.All I require is your honest co-operation to enable me
as the legal attorney to the deceased in seeing that you receive this fund
as the next of kin.I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to
protect you from
any breach of the law.

See the website of the bomb explosion below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm

Get back to me via my Private email address as stated therein ebeljegedechambers@yahoo.de

Best regards,

Barr. Ebel Jegede (SAN).



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