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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: "martin john" <martin_john55@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:26:21 +0100
Subject: REPLY URGENTLY.

FROM MR MARTIN JOHN.AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
ECO BANK LAGOS NIGERIA.
TEL: 234-8028136773

Dear Friend,

I AM MR MARTIN JOHN THE AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT
ECO BANK LAGOS NIGERIA I am writing following the impressive information
about your profile through the website your capability and reliability to
champion this opportunity.In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum
of $20.5 million US dollars (TWENTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRAD THOUSAND US
DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers Mr
Arthor Smith from united states of america who died along with his entire
family in October,1999 in a plane crash.

Since we got this information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the
crash leaving no body behind to claim the money.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after long
period, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
fund.

The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine cannot stand as
next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed that 25% of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during this transaction
and 70 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages
indicated.

Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of
your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application.

I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100% hitch
free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter. I decided to contact you as
you have products of interest in your part of the world where we can invest
our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are civil servants. We
can conclude this operation within ten banking days.

Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for more information, all
confirmable before you apply if you want.May God be with you. Trusting to
hear from you shortly for a detailed information which are confirmable
before you can make up your mind to apply.

Best Regards.

MR MARTIN JOHN.

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