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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: legallpetitioner@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 05:12:03 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Good=20day=2E?=

Law Chamber Principal Attorney
Okoh Frank & Associates
44, Kofo Abayomi Avenue,
Victoria Island,
Lagos-Nigeria.
Email-barisokohfrank@yahoo.com

Good day,

Please kindly accept my apology for sending
unsolicited mail to you. I believe you are a highly
respected personality, considering the fact that I
sourced your profile from a human resource profile
database on your country. Though, I do not know to
what extent you are familiar with events.
Well, I am Barrister Okoh Musa Frank, a Solicitor. I am the
Personal Attorney to Mr. Steve Anderson , who used to
work with Agip Oil Company in Nigeria. On the 21st of
April 2003, his wife and their three children were
involved in a car accident along Abuja Express Road.
Unfortunately, they all lost their lives in the event
of the accident. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's
relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. After
these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his relatives over the Internet to locate any
member of his family but to no avail, hence, I
contacted you to assist in repatriating the money left
behind by my client in a Finance Company.
Particularly, the Finance House where the deceased
deposited the US$15 Million (Fifteen Million United
States Dollars only).
Consequently, this Finance House issued me a notice to
provide the Next of Kin to claim the US$15 Million
(Fifteen Million United States Dollars only) in their
custody within the next ten official working days.
Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the
relatives for over 2 years now, I seek your consent to
present you as the next of kin of the deceased to
claim the fund as the Next of Kin to him so that the
fund will be transferred to your account by the
Finance House.
Upon receipt of the fund, I will come over to your
country to meet with you for the disbursement of the
fund and then you and I will share the money in this
order: 50% will be for me, 45% will be for you.And the remaining 5% would
been for the expensive. I have
all the necessary legal documents that can back our
claim we will make with the Finance House.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us
seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will
be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law.
Best regards.
Barrister Okoh Frank
Principal Attorney
N:B YOU CAN REPLY TO MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS (barisokohfrank@yahoo.com)







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