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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: a_mantu@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 16:22:05 +0200
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20assistance?=

NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION (NNPC)
P.M.B 10201 FALOMO IKOYI, LAGOS
CONTRACTS AWARDS AND IMPLEMENTATION COMMITTEE (CAIC)

URGENT
Dear Sir,
I write to solicit your partnership and assistance in an urgent and mutually
benefiting business transaction.
I am Alh.Ahmed Mantu,Director of the contract awards and implementation
committee (C.A.I.C), of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
set up by the new democratic Government in Nigeria, to review and make recommendations
for payments on all outstanding foreign debts resulting from contracts executed
for the Nigeria National petroleum Corporation (NNPC) under the past military
despensation.

During the course of my committees assignments, I discovered a deliberately
over invoiced and unclaimed contract payment to the tune of US$23.5 Million
(Twenty three Million, Five Hundred United State Dollars). This fund had
been floating reluctantly unidentified in the vault of the central Bank
of Nigeria (CBN), ready for immediate transfer.

In partnership with the secretary of my committee who is only privy to this,
we have made adequate and full prof arrangement to transfer the fund in
question into a Foreign Bank Account.
With our inability to transfer this money by ourselves being civil servants,
we are thus asking that you assist us in receiving this fund into your private
or corporate bank account.
Moreover the original foreign contractor of the over inflated general contract
cover has long been paid and has since left Nigeria, leaving us with no
one to content with.

For this transaction to take place, we will like you to furnished us with
the bank you would want the US& 23.5 Million Dollars to be paid into.

Give us your private telephone and fax numbers for easy communication, this
information will enable us to seek the approval of the fund from the concern
quarters within 5-7 days banking days and the department of the petroleum
resources payment information data will be faxed immediately to you for
completion.

I expect to hear from you immediately, after which you will be comprehensively
detailed on this transaction.Please reply to this email address (a_mantu123@yahoo.com)
for security reasons.

Best regard;,
Alh.Ahmed Mantu.



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