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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: "Abraham Egom" <abragomi@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 13:07:39 +0000
Subject: URGENT FROM BARRISTER ABRAHAM

Abraham Egom
Solicitors & advocates
Suite 25 Martins House
Martins St, Lagos
Lagos Nigeria


Greetings

STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL

I came to know you through my search for a reliable, transparent and
trustworthy person or partner to assist me execute a vital private and
confidential business transaction as stated below, therefore I am very glad
I found you. I want you to bear in mind that this is not a hoax mail But I
respectfully insist you read this mail carefully as I am optimistic it will
open door for unimaginable financial reward for both of us.

I am Barrister Abraham Egom,the personal attorney to late engr.Ankara, a
foreigner and an oil merchant/Contractor here in Nigeria,herein shall be
refered as my client,On the 21st of April 1999, my client, his wife and
their three children were involved in a ghastly auto accident along Shagamu
Express Road, unfortunately,all occupants of the vehicle lost their
lives,Since then I have made several enquiries to Embassies to locate any of
my late client's extended family or Relatives and this has been
unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his name over
the Internet to locate any member of his family or next of kin/relative.I am
contacting you to assist in repatrating the money left behind by my late
client before they get confisicatedor declared unserviceable by
Intercititrust bank plc.where this huge amount US$5.7million is lodged.

The bank has issued me notice to provide the next of kin/Relative or have
the account confiscated within the next 21 banking days.Since I have been
unsuccesfull in locating the relatives for over 4 years now, I seek your
consent to present you as the next of kin/Relative of the deceased so that
this US$5.7 million can be transferred into your account and then you and I
will share this fund according to any agree ratio.

Based on this I want you to send the following to me:
1: your full names
2: your private phone number
3: your full contact address
4: your occupation
5: your age
6 your bank name, address,and account number where you wish the above
money($5.7M) to be transferred into.

The above information will enable me proceed with the claim.

All I require is your honest co-operation and confidentiality to enable us
seeing this deal through,I guarantee that this will be executed under
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the
law.

PLEASE CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY YOU READ THIS mail ONLY THROUGH MY DIRECT
EMAIL: abragomi@yahoo.co.uk


Thanks and God Bless.

BARRISTER ABRAHAM EGOM

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