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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: "George coleman" <georgecole1@ecplaza.net>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:31:27 -1200
Subject: COMPLIMENTS


George.A Coleman
Department of Petroleum Resources
Liquified Natural Gas.
Lagos-Nigeria
email; georgecole1@ecplaza.net

Attn: The Managing Director/ Chief Executive.
Dear Sir,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT
I am George.A Coleman, a native of Cape Town in South Africa
and I am
an expatriate and an Executive Director (Accounts) with the
Liquified
Natural Gas of Nigeria (LNG). Please accept my apology for
using this
medium to convey a transaction/business of this magnitude,
but this is due
to the confidentiality and prompt access reposed in this
medium. Be
informed that a member of the Nigerian Export Promotion
Council (NEPC) who
was a member of the government delegates to your country
gave your
enviable and suitable credentials/particulars to me. I have
decided to seek
your co-operation in the execution of this deal described
hereunder for
the benefit of all parties and hoping you will keep it as
TOP SECRET
because of the nature of the business.

Within the Department of Petroleum Resources (where I work
as a
director), and with the co-operation of three other top
directors, we have in
our possession as overdue payment bills totaling Twenty Two
Million
Five Hundred Thousand US Dollars (US$22,500,000.00) which we
want to
transfer abroad with the assistance and co-operation of a
company/or an
individual to receive the said funds via a reliable Bank
Account. Quite
frankly, we are handicapped as the Nigerian Civil Service
laws (Code of
Conduct Bureau) strongly prohibits us from owning/or
operating a foreign
account hence your importance in this whole transaction.

This amount (US$22.5M) represents the balance of the total
value of a
contract executed on behalf of my department by a foreign
contracting firm which we the directors (involved)
deliberately
over-invoiced. Though the actual cost have been paid to the
original
contractor leaving the balance in the tune of the said
amount which we have in
principle gotten approval to remit by Key Tested Telegraphic
transfer
(K.T.T.) to any foreign bank account you will provide.

I have the authority of my partners involved to propose that
should you
be willing to assist us in this transaction by way of
providing the
required account in receiving these funds, your share of the
entire sum
will be US$5Million (22.2%), US$10.5Million (46.6%) for us
and
US$7Million (31.1%) will be used to settle taxation and
other miscellaneous
expenses in the course of transferring the funds to your
account. The
business itself is 100% foolproof and safe, as long as you
maintain utmost
secrecy and confidentiality, furthermore your area of
specialization will
not be a hindrance to the successful completion of this
transaction. I
have reposed my confidence in you and hope you will not
disappoint me.

Should you be willing to assist positively with a common
goal, endeavor
to contact me immediately through my confidential email
address (solely
set up for this purpose). If you are not interested, please
also
indicate so, so that it will enable me contact other foreign
partner with
recommendations to carry out this deal.
I want to assure you that my colleagues and I are in
position to make
the payment of this claim possible provided that you can
give us a very
concrete assurance of the safety of our share. Please,
always treat
this matter with utmost confidentiality, because we will not
comprehend
any form of exposure as we are still in active government
service. Time
is of essence in this business, so kindly act fast.
Note: I advise that your contact with me should strictly be
via my
confidential email address for security purposes and the
successful
achievement of our primary motive (i.e successful
realization of the aim of this transaction without hitches).
I await in anticipation your fullest co-operation.
Yours faithfully,
George.A Coleman

NB:PLEASE REPLY ONLY TO THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS

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