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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: "sanni ahmed" <sahed33@msn.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:26:23 +0000
Subject: Best Wishes

From: Dr. Sanni Ahmed
Phone: 234 80 33 481445
Email: sanni.ahmed@personal.ro




Dear Sir/Madam, CEO.

Peace be with you. I pray this mail will meet you in good health.

I am Dr.Sanni Ahmed, the Head of Internal Auditor of the Bank of Nigeria
(CBN). I decided to contact you for this trustful financial business
transaction which involves transfer of funds. I need a God fearing and
honest profound credible person who would not breach any trustful agreement.

>From the year, 1998, the Military Dictorship of Late Gen. Sanni Abacha in
Nigeria, imposed difficult conditions and sanctioned approved payments to
foreign firms who duly executed contracts for the Turn Arround Maintenance
(TAM) of the three major Refineries in Nigeria: ie, Portharcourt Refinery,
Warri Refinery and Kaduna Refinery respectively.

Following various protests,agitations and court orders by the foreign
creditors,and intervention of international communities, the present
Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria , led by President Olusegun
Obasenjo, has reviewed the payments and gave express payment approvals to
the various contractors under the payment approval NO: FGN/CP/CBN/33709/04.

In view of this, the bank of Nigeria have been mandated to make payments
strictly on demand. During the cause of our duty, we discovered unclaimed
amount of USD15.5Million (Fifteen Million five hundred thousand US Dollars).
In our investigation, it was revealed that the creditor had died and the
company went bankcruptcy and windup since 2002, and nobody would come for
the payment any longer. We have kept this secret, and consider this as great
opportunity.

I wish to solicit for your express assistance to claim the amount of
USD15.5Million in your name and wire the fund into your account number for
our benefit. We shall reward you with 30% of the total fund while you will
keep the remaining for our Investment plan in your country. We are civil
servants, it is highly prohibited to own an oversea account while in the
civil service.

If you can accept to help, you will have nothing to loss, we shall procure
all required documents and paper works to protect the fund from any breach
Laws. I sincerely assured you a riskfree process and 100% success guarantee.

What I need is your sincere co operation and honesty. Send your bank account
information whish we shall us to make the formal payment application for
the transfer to be effective in favour of your name.

We shall conclude the whole transction within 14 days of recieving your
possetive response. Kindly reply throguh email: sanni.ahmed@personal.ro

Thanks for your good understanding.
Thanks.
Regards
Dr. Sanni Ahmed
Tel: 234 80 33 481445, Pls call me for more briefing.

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