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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: "benjamin favour" <benjaminfavour_77@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:19:58 +0000
Subject: Waiting your positive reply

FROM THE DESK OF MR BENJAMIN FAVOUR
ZENITH BANK OF NIGERIA
LAGOS NIGERIA
A PRIVATE BUSINESS PROPOSAL
I am MR BENJAMIN, The manager,Bills and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance
Department of the ZenithBank of Nigeria Plc. I am writing this letter to ask
for your support and cooperation to carry out this business opportunity in
my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $15,000,000.00 Fifteen million
United States Dollars only)in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family in November 1997 in aPlan
crash.

Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting hisnext-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir,because we cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately, neither
their family
member nor distant relative has ever appeared to claimthe said fund . Upon
this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to make
business with you and release the total amount
into your account as theheir of the fund since no one came for it or
discovered he maintained account with our bank, otherwise the fund will be
returned to the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be asstated thus; 20 % for
you as foreign partner,75 % for us theofficials in
my department and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences
incurred by us and you during the course of this business.Upon the
successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my colleagues will come
to your country and mind our share.

It is from our 75 % we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my
country asa way of recycling the fund. To commence this transaction, we
require you to immediately indicate your interest by a return e-mail
andenclose your private contact telephone number, fax number full name
andaddress and your designated bank coordinates to enable us file letter
ofclaim to the appropriat departments for necessary approvals before
thetransfer can be made.

Note also, this transaction must be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL because of
its nature.

I look forward to receiving your prompt response.

MR BENJAMIN FAVOUR

Zenith Bank ofNigeria.

N.B. Plz feel free to reply at my
alternativemail(benjaminfavour@sify.com)

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