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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: alexadams5050@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 05:16:05 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Attention=20Sir/Madam?=

Dear Sir

Re; Transfer of US$35 million to your Bank account.

Private Email Address. (alexadams5050@sino.net)

My name is Senator. Alex Adams, I am a member of the Advisory Committe on
Oil & Gas in the Presidency Federal Republic Of Nigeria.I got your information
through World Web in Internet and after going through your profile I was
convinced that you can assit me hence I contacted you.

I have the sum of US$35Millon cash which I secured from the sales and distribution
of crude oil and petroleum products worldwide.


I decide to solicit your assistance to secure the fund for our personal
use, it is already in the vaults of a Financial Firm abroad, the fund was
scheduled to be transferred via diplomatic means to Union Bank of Switzerland
UBS) before I advised the diplomats to withheld the fund on transit, please,I
want to use a God fearing foreigner (like you) for the transaction.

Hence we can no longer use my name, I hereby solicit that you kindly furnish
to me your information (name and address, phones and fax numbers) and assistance
to secure the fund in your country. I have to compensate you with 30% of
the total fund (us$35million) for providing necessary assistance to secure
the fund in your country, while the balance I will used for investments(car
sales, real estate,manufacturing,agriculture, etc) as you will advice,this
transaction is 100% risk free as all relevant details of the fund will be
furnished to you on receipt of your reply.

As soon as I get the above information from you, I will disclose to you
the name and the country of the security company.Do not hesitate to contact
me only on this email address below as the transaction needs urgent attention
and must be confidential .

If you are interested in doing this transaction with me kindly send your
reply to this emailaddress: (alexadams5050@sino.net)


Thanks and God bless,

Senator. Alex Adams






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