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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: "Barr Leo Abbah" <leo22_a@handbag.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:22:28 -0700
Subject: BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
ASSOCIATES LAW CHAMBERS
Office Address: 805 Law Building,
Maitima Abuja
Attention,
I am Barrister Leo Abbah, the Personal Attorney to Mr. Williams Holloway, a British national,
and an oil consultant who used to work with Shell Petroleum Development Company in Nigeria.
On the 21st of April 2000, my client, his wife and their three children were involved in
a car accident along Abuja / Lagos Express Road,unfortunately they all lost
their lives in the event of the accident. since then I have made several enquiries to your
Embassy to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful,
after these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet
to locate any member of his family but of no avail,hence I contacted you.
I contacted you to assist in repartrating the money and property left behind by my client
before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank where this huge deposits
were lodged,particularly,the Security where the deceased had an account valued at about $9.5
million U.S dollars. Conseqently,the bank issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or
have the account confiscated within the next ten official working days, since I have been
unsuccesfull in locating the the relatives for over 2 years now.
I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of
this account valued at $26,500,000.00 million U.S dollars can be paid to you and then you and
me can share the money, 55% to me and 40% to you, while 5% should be for expenses or tax as
your government may require. I have all necessary legal documents that can be used to back
up any claim we may make.
All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us see this deal through.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you
from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me by email to enable us discuss further.: leo_ahh@uymail.com
Best Regards.
Barrister Leo Abbah
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