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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: obily martins <obilymartins55@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 01:00:38 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Response ASAP



Obily Martins

Union Bank of Nigeria
Alternative Email;obilymartins55@yahoo.co.uk



Dear Sir/Madam,

I am Obily Martins of the Union Bank of Nigeria.and I am
the personel Account Manager of one late Mr.Patrick Moller,
a nationale of your country, who used to work with Shell
Petrolum Development Company here in Nigeria.

On the 22nd Sept, 2000,our customer,and his wife and
their three children were involved in a car accident
along sagbama express road. All occupants ofthe vehicle
unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made
severalenquiries to your embassy to locate any of his
extended relatives but this has also proved unsuccessful.

I am contacting you now to assist in repartrating the
money and property left behind by our customer before they get
confiscated or declared unserviceable by our bank where he
deposited seventeen million five hundred united states dollars
sum off US$17.5 million dollars in our bank the Union
Bank of Nigeria.

The banking guidelines of our bank stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed for over some period of years
and few months,with the account unservicable the money
will be confisicated and this will happen after the
next Year if nobody comes for the money.

Since we have not seen any body for the money and his
property for the last 5years and our bank has been notifying
the Rotary club for the past 3 year,may I now seek your consent
to present yourself as the next of kin of the deceased since
you have the same name so that the proceeds of this account
valued at US$12.5million dollars can be paid to you and then
you and I can share the money.

I guarantee that this will be executed under legitimate
arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law.
Please,kindly get in touch with me through the above email
address or yiu can call me on this number: 234 803 689 6561

Best regards,

Obily Martins










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