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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: femiolabode@tiscali.co.uk
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 12:48:02 +0100
Subject: Free Business Partnership

Federal Ministry of Works & Housing
Radio House, Herbert Macaulay Way (south)
P.M.B 111, Garki, Abuja

Re:Free Business Partnership

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to invite you to freely participate in a business venture on behalf
of my partners and I.We especially need you to act as the chief beneficiary
of a contract sum worth $14M in the Ministry of Works & Housing, Nigeria.

For your benefit of doubt, we [ my partners & I] are management officials
in the board team of the above named government parastatal. In addition,
we are members of the internal audit reveiw panel set up to reconcile all
bonifide
contract debts being owed to foreigners by the government of Nigeria.

In the course of our auditing, we came across the siad sum of $14m floating
in the ministry escrow account as an accrued debt payable to a yet un-identified
contractor since 2001.On thorough examination,it was discovered that the
$14M was a debt brilliantly created by the former Director General in favour
of a company that she was about to incorporate locally here with the help
of a foreign partner.

We made consultations with the former DG and eventually struck an agreement
with her.The masterplan she created remains the same.The plan is to make
you the chief beneficiary to the $14M by way of advancing you/your company
as the real contractor to whom the sum is owed by the Ministry for a project
executed between 2000/2001.As a matter of fact,all the modalities needed
to acheive this has already been perfected. The overall plan is 100% foolproof
and will be carried out legally in every aspect of the transaction. Specifically,your
duty will be to act in correspondence (viaE-mails,Faxes & Telephone)- with
the local Ministry of Finance as well as the Apex Bank authorities; until
your total claims are verified,approved and the money paid into your advised
bank account.

Whereas we would like to maintain our full confidentiality for now, we shall
however provide you with more details as to the masterplan and the entire
time frames involved. We will do so when you indicate your interest to become
a partner with us.

Looking forward to a cordial business partnership with you.

Sincerely,

Engr. Femi olabode.
__________________________________________________________________
Engr.Femi olabode.
Federal Ministry of Works & Housing
Radio House, Herbert Macaulay Way (south)
P.M.B 111, Garki, Abuja
(Opposite the International Conference Centre)
www.nopa.net/Press_Release/messages/24.shtml
engrfemiolabode@safe-mail.net
Fax: 234-9-5229634






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