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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: dannkanga2@terra.com.mx
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 06:30:40 -0700
Subject: very urgent please.

leaFROM: DR.Dan Nkanga
ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD.
COWRIE HOUSE,
ADEOLA-HOPEWELL STR.
VICTORIA-ISLAND, LAGOS
Dear Sir,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction; this is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make anyone apprehensive and worried,
but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day. We have
decided to contact you by e-mail due to the urgency of this transaction.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am DR.DAN NKANGA,
a Manager in advances department of the ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD, Lagos.
I came to know of you in my private search for a reliable and reputable
person to handle a very confidential transaction which involves the transfer
of a huge sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.
I am not too really sure if you are my long lost contact whom I am trying
to reach, but in anyway, please do take this message with a good heart and
report back to me if you are not the person I think you are. I would explain
more latter.
THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, late Engineer SANN CLARKE, an Oil Merchant / contractor with
the federal Government of Nigeria, until his death three years ago in a
ghastly air crash, banked with us here at ZENITH BANK Lagos, and had a closing
balance of USD$27.5M ( Twenty Seven Million and Five hundred thousand, United
States Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expects to be claimed
by any of his available foreign next of kin or alternatively be donated
to a discredited trust fund for the purchase of arms and ammunition at a
military war college here in Nigeria. A fervent valuable effort has been
made by our bank (ZENITH INTERNATIONAL BANK) to get in touch with any of
the CLARKE family or relatives but all have proved to no avail. It is because
of the perceived possibility of not going to be able to locate any of late
Engr. SANN Clarke?s next of kin, wife or children that our Chairman and
board of directors have decided to declare the funds (UNCLAIMED) and then
be subsequently donated to the discredited Trust Fund for the purchase of
Arms and Ammunitions for war in Africa against other continent in the world.
In order to avert this negative development, myself and some of my trusted
collaborating colleagues here at the bank now seek for your permission to
have you stand as late Engr. SANN Clarke?s next of kin so that the funds
could be subsequently transferred into your bank account as the beneficiary?s
next of kin. All documents and proves to authenticate you as the rightful
next of kin to the beneficiary will be carefully arranged such that the
deal will be a 100% risk free involvement. For your assistance and collaboration
, your commission will be 20%, 75% shall be for myself and my collaborating
colleagues for investment purposes in your country while 5% will be set
aside for any expenses that would be incurred in the process of the transfer.

If this proposal is OK, and you do not wish to take advantage of the trust
we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me immediately
via my most exclusive e-mail: nkanga2@portugalmail.com furnishing me with
your most confidential telephone, fax number and exclusive e-mail so that
I can forward to you the relevant details of this transaction.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-operation
Best regards and God blessings,
DR Dan Nkanga (ZENITH INTL BANK LTD).
Lagos - Nigeria.


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