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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: edemarknnpc@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:48:34 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Contract=20Award=20Committee?=

Petroleum {Special} Trust Fund
Contract Award Committee
Natioal Secretariat
Victoria Island
Lagos.

Dear Sir,

The petroleum special Trust Fund was set up by the late Head of
state,General Sani Abacha who died on 18th June,1998,to manage the excess
revenue accruing from the sale of petroleum and its
allied products as a result of a domestic increase in the prices of petroleum
products.

The estimated annual revenue for 1999 was $45 billion US Dollars
Ref.FMF A26 Unit 3B paragraph "D" of the Auditor General of
Federal Republic of Nigeria Report of Nov.1999 on estimated revenue.

I am the Chairman of the Contract Award Committee and my committee is solely
responsible for awarding and payment of contracts on behalf of federal Government
of Nigeria.

My Committee awarded contracts to foreign contractors for the supply of
Agricultural Machines Spare parts to the Ministry of
Agriculture and Natural Resources. We overshot the contract sum by USD35
Million. We have paid the contractors and withholding the balance of USD35Million.

Because of existing domestic laws forbiding civil servants from
opening, operating, and maintaining foreign accounts,we do not
have the expertise to transfer this balance of funds to a foreign account.

However, this balance of USD35 Million has been secured in form of credit/payment
to a foreign contractors .Hence,we wish
to transfer into your bank account as the beneficiary of the funds.

We have also arrived at a conclusion that you will be compensated to the
tune of 25% of the total sum transfer while 5% will be reserved for incidental
expenses that both parties will incur in the course of actualizing this
transaction and the balance of 70% will be kept for the Committee members.

If you know you are capable of helping us actualizing our life's
dream,you should send to me immediately the details of your bank
particulars or open a new account where we can transfer the money{USD35
Million} which you will be holding in trust for us untill we come over there
for our share.Your nature of business does not matter in this transaction.

The required details include your personalTelephone/Fax
numbers,beneficiary's name, Name of Bank,Routing number,Account
number,Telephone/Fax numbers of same Bank.

Note: Note that this transaction will be concluded within 10 working days
from the day the required details are forwarded to us.

PLEASE ALL FURTHER MAILS SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO
edemarknnpc@myway.com

Please, treat this as top secret.
Yours sincerely,
Dr. Ede Mark
E-mail; edemarknnpc@myway.com



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