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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: zakki ojoboh <zakkiojoboh5@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: inheritance claim of John Newnam
FROM: BARRISTER ZAKKI OJOBOH CHAMBER
& ASSOCIATE
Lion Building,
Suit 52, Saka Tinubu,
Lagos Nigeria.
Tel: 234-806-231-2594
Dear Newnam,
I am Barr.Zakki Ojoboh (SAN) personal attorney to.Engr. John Newnam, a national of your country, who used to work with Zenon Oil Company here in Nigeria herein after, shall be referred to as my client. My client with his entire family (The wife and Children) were involved in the explosion in Lagos,Nigeria, on January 27, 2002 which, claimed many lives and property.
Unfortunately, my client and the family lost their lives in that disaster that needed not to have happened. Since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful.
After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you.
My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money and property left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits were lodged and where the deceased had an account valued at about US$10 Million dollars.
The guidelines of the bank stipulates that if any deposit remained unclaimed for over a period of 1 years and few months, without the fund claimed, the said deposit will be confiscated and this will happen with some couple of official working months if nobody comes for the money.
The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the account confiscated. Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over one year now, I seek your consent as the next of kin of the deceased since you have the same last name/surname so that the proceeds of this account valued at US$10 million dollars can be paid to you.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable me as the legal attorney to the deceased in seeing that you receive your inheritance fund. I guarantee that this will be executed legitimately to protect you from any breach of the law.
See the 2 website of the bomb explosion below: -
http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/index_txt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2718295.stm
I Implore you to get back to me on my mobile:234-806-231-2594.Upon your acceptance of this inheritance claim. this will enable me give you directives on how to contact the Bank for the claiming of the fund.
Faithfully Yours,
Barr. Zakki Ojoboh(SAN)
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