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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: eddy mety <eddy_metu2@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 15:02:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Barrister Eddy Metu
Metu chamber & Associate
Plot 18 frank Avenue
Ikeja - Lagos.
Email: eddy_metu2@yahoo.com
Tel;+2348038437480.


Kindly Attend,

this letter might come to you as a surprise but it is coming with the best of intentions and will be of mutual benefit to all the parties involved.

I am Eddy Metu a Lawyer to the former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who is now in exile here in Nigeria I am writing to solicit your much-desired assistance in helping my client secure his funds that are already in Europe with a security company.

The fund in question is a total of us$25.5M(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars) in $100 bills and stashed in four trunk boxes. The security company shipped this fund out of Liberia through a diplomatic means.

The boxes are already in Europe and under the custody of the security company now

You will be rewarded with 25% of the total fund us$25,5 M(Twenty Five Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars)for your kind assistance in receiving this fund into your safe account number in your country

This transaction is 100% risk free. Contact me on barrister_metu2@yahoo.com or Tel;+2348038437480.if you have interest.

Please you should keep this transaction a top secret and we are prepared to do more business with you pending your approach towards this project.

I await your urgent response.

Thanks
Barrister Eddy Metu.





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