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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: "Mr. Mohammed Abacha" <mohab008@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: mohab2200@yahoo.ca
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:13:58 +0100
Subject: From: Mohammed Abacha
Dear friend,
I am Mohammed Abacha, the eldest son of the late General Sanni Abacha. Former President of Nigeria who died in 1998 on heart attack. After my father's death I was falsely accused of murder, corruption and money laundering and as such was imprisoned, but thank God I have been released for my innocence. Well dear friend I need your assistance to transfer some of my money into your account, because the government is making plans to seize them, as they did to my father's money. Please view this site and read its content carefully.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2492425.stm>
The amount $35.5 million is in a security vault only known by my mum and I. All that is needed is for you to arrange to take delivery of the fund when it is delivered to you in your house on a special arrangement between the government and me and Diplomats who are the diplomats used by my father when he was alive. These are the Diplomats that used to carryout government money to any part of the world without any hitch. In this special arrangement the Diplomats will airlift the fund in the consignment as National Diplomatic Consignment and flown it to your country, and clear the consignment in your airport and delivered it to you, then you will deposit the fund in your local bank and wait for my coming to your country for mutual sharing.
I will remunerate you with 20% at the end, but most of all is that I solicit your trust in this transaction. I have been confined only to Kano and all my calls are monitored, I will give you my private number to get me when you need to call me while replying include your private phone and fax line for quick communication.
I wait for your quick reply.
Yours truly,
Mohammed.
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