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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: drdesmondobinna obinna <drdesmondobinna@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 10:16:32 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP.



[drdesmondobinna@yahoo.com

Subject: REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

From:DR.Desmond Obinna

Lagos-Nigeria.

Attn:President/Ceo.

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL .
RE: TRANSFER OF US$35.5 MILLION (THIRTY FIVE MILLION,FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS ONLY).

I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as we
are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for
foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual
benefit.
I am a member of the Federal Government of Nigeria Contract Award and
Monitoring Committee in the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC)Sometime ago, a contract was awarded to a foreign firm in NNPC by my
Committee.
This contract was over invoiced to the tune of US$35.5M. U. S.Dollars. This
was done deliberately. The over-invoicing was a deal by my committee to
benefit from the project. We now want totransfer this money which is in a
suspense Account with NNPC into any
Overseas Account which we expect you to provide for us.

SHARE: -
For providing the account where we shall remit the money into, you will be
entitled to 20% of the money,70% will be for me and my partners while 10%
has been mapped out from the total sum to cover any expenses that may be
incurred by both parties during the course of this transfer,both locally and
international expenses.

I would require the following: -

1. Your company's name, address, telephone and fax numbers.

The above informations would be used to make formal applications as a
matter of procedure for the release of the money and onward transfer to
your account.It does not matter whether or not your company does contract
projects of this nature described here. The assumption is that your company
won the major contract and subcontracted it out to othercompanies. More
often than not, big trading companies or firms of unrelated
fields win major contracts and subcontracts to more specialized firms for
execution of such contracts.We have strong reliable connections and
contacts at the Central Bank of Nigeria, as well as the Federal Ministry of
Finance and we have no doubt that all the money will be released and
transferred if we get the necessary foreign partner to assist us in this
deal. Therefore,
when the business is successfully concluded we shall through our same
connections withdraw all documents used from all the concerned Government
Ministries for 100% security.

We are ordinary civil servants and we will not want to miss this once in a
lifetime opportunity to get rich. We want this money to be transferred to
the overseas Accounts for us, before the present Democratic Government
starts Auditing all Federal Government owned
Parastatals.Please contact me immediately through my Email Address:drdesmondobinna@yahoo.com),
whether or not you are interested in this deal. If you are not, it will
enable me scout for another foreign partner to carry out this deal.But
where you are interested,send the required documents aforementioned herein
through my above email box address(drdesmondobinna@yahoo.com),as time is of the
essence in this business.
I wait in anticipation of your fullest co-operation.

Yours Faithfully,

DR.DESMOND OBINNA.









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