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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: "barrister ukbello" <barristeruk@msn.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 08:17:13 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

URGENT ASSISTANCE NEEDED

Dear friend,


I am Barrister U.K Bello of Bello
chambers and Associate. I am the financial lawyer to
the
late Mr Gonzales Scott from Nothern Ireland,
United kingdom.
Mr Gonzales was an oil merchant with investment in
the leading oil Africa.
He invested in lifting oil from Niger delta in
Nigeria to other countries
where he sales it. He was the highest shareholder in
Shell petroleum Bp in
1994.

Mr Gonzales Scott met his untimely death via plane
crash in the 2002.I was
contacted as his lawyer by the board of director,
shell Bp to look for the relative of late Scott
Gonzales to enable them
transfer the accumulated share dividend of his
investment with the
Union bank of NIgeira Plc. it is about two years
now. I made some research about the relatives of Mr
Gonzales and discorvered through some DNA reports
that
some other two passengers in the same plane happend
to be his wife and only daughter Paula Scott
Gonzales who
also died along with him in the crash.


I am contacting you so that both of us can reach an
agreement to enable you act as his next of kin and
claim the fund.
Of course they will believe me because I am his
financial lawyer untill his death. and I have all
his business documents with me.I would have use
someone from
here for the purppose but the fact that late Mr
Gonzales is a white man made it impossible for me
to
present a black man as his next of kin which of
course, the bank will not honour.All the document
will be validated in your name and shall be drafted
by me to include
your name in an application which be forwarded to
the
bank for the claims.


The money is just USD15.5Million dollars. I will
personally monitor the
progress of the transaction as
your lawyer.After we suceed in transfering the money
into your account, we will give some portion of the
money to charity home in your country and then share
the remaining in the ratio 70% to30% between you and
I.

If you are willing to work with me in this regard,
please, forward to
me through this email address:.
1) Your full name and contact address

2) your phone/fax lines
send your reply to

Thanks and God bless you.

Barrister U.K Bello

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