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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: "nadogeri@terra.com.mx" <nadogeri@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:27:28 +0100
Subject: ESTATE ACQUISITION PROPOSAL

ESTATE ACQUISITION PROPOSAL

OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR GENERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS & HOUSING

PLOT 2 ELEPHANT HOUSE,

IKOYI lAGOS,

NIGERIA

PROPOSAL

I write to inform you of my desire to acquire estates or landed properties
in your country in my capacity as the Director of Contracts and Finance
Allocations of the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing in Nigeria. Considering
my very strategic and influential position, I would want the transaction
to be as strictly confidential as possible. I further wants my identity
to remain undisclosed at least for now, untill the completion of the transaction.
Hence my desire to have an overseas agent. I am therefore making inquirings
if you would agree to act as my overseas agent in order to actualize this
transaction.

The deal, in brief, is that the funds with which I intend to carry out my
proposed investments in your country is presently in a coded account at
the Nigerian apex bank (i.e. the Central Bank of Nigeria), I need your assistance
to transfer the funds to your country in a convenient bank account that
will be provided by you before I can put the funds into use in your country.
For this, you shall considered to have executed a contract for the Federal
Ministry of Works and Housing in Nigeria for which payment should be effected
to you by the Ministry as a benefiary contractor, The contract sum of which
shall run into US$26.4 Million, of which your share shall be 15% if you
agree to be my overseas agent.

As soon as payment is effected, and the amount mentioned above is successfully
transferred into your account, I intend to use my own share in acquiring
some estates and other landed properties abroad. I shall depend very much
on your business acumen to achieve this. In the light of this, I would like
you to forward to me the following information:

1. Your personal name or company name and address;

2. Your personal fax number;

3. Your personal telephone number for easy communication.

You are requested to communicate your acceptance of this proposal through
my above stated email address after which I shall discuss in details the
modalities for seeing this transaction through. Your quick response will
be highly appreciated.

Thank you in anticipation of your cooperation.

Yours faithfully.

Nelson Adogeri.


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