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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: "sanusi james" <sanusijames2000@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sanusijames@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:23:33 +0000
Subject: ONCE IN A LIFE TIME!

SANUSI JAMES
Department of Petroleum Resources
Liquified Natural Gas.
Lagos-Nigeria
Attn: The Managing Director/ Chief Executive.
Dear Sir,
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND URGENT
I am Sanusi James, 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,
Sanusi James.

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