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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: "Hajiya Maryam A." <hajiya_ma@wanadoo.es> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hajiya@box.az
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:30:30 +0100
Subject: Personal Inquiries
Date; 06/10/05
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Hajiya Maryam Abacha, the widow of General Sani Abacha (of blessed memory), the late Nigerian head of state who died in office on June 8, 1998.
I know you may have received tons of emails and facsimiles written by faceless people who claim to be my very person or related to my family; all in their effort to use the situation and controversy surrounding my family, for their own interest.
These are very rough days for my family. My first son and I are on trial for embezzlement of public funds and human rights abuses.
The Nigerian Government, which is dominated by the south, is really out pursuing a vindictive policy against the Northerners and my family particularly.
The Government has seized more than $1.1 billion dollars in local and foreign currencies belonging to my family, along with 39 luxury houses.
With the help of the Israeli forensic accountants hired by the Nigerian Government, $2.8 billion in my late Husbands bank accounts have been discovered and frozen in Switzerland, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, and Monaco.
Shortly after my husband's death; I was stopped at the airport on the charges of trying to leave the country with excessive amount of cash. I asked them if I was banned from having foreign currencies in my possession.
I am currently under 24-hour surveillance by the police, and my entire family is banned from leaving the country. That very well amounts to house arrest.
In short my troubles have no bounds. Everything around my family seems to be wrong.
Why is my family being battered and trampled? The Government said my late husband embezzled US$5.5 billion of public funds.
But I know it would only take another three years for my family's troubles to be over. It is obvious that power would return to the North again by 2008. And that would mark the end to our tough times.
I am mailing you today because I need a very big help from you. And by yourself, you cannot do it for me. It is only by the will, grace and wisdom of God that you can do it for my family.
I have $13.5 Million dollars deposited in a Security company outside Nigeria which location I shall tell you later. The money was packed in a trunk box and deposited with the company in 1997.
I declared the content as family valuables. So no human soul is aware on the fund. Even the security company did not know the content was US currency. They only scanned the trunk box to make sure it didn't contain dangerous and prohibited materials.
The deposit documents are always in my body, which is why the Nigerian security operatives could not find anything about the deposit.
I will scan and send them to you. I cannot fax or call you as my line is tapped and we know our house is bugged also.
I will only send it to you through email. And I will also mail to instruct the security company to release the consignment to you.
I want you to recover and manage this fund on my behalf, till we regain our freedom and are able to manage our lives in peace.
Note that I would want this recovery to be very snappy. No time wasting once the related information is divulged to you.
When you take possession of the consignment/deposit, I will let you keep 20% of the fund while you shall be required to keep the remaining 80% in safety for me till I am able to ask for it.
Please I am expecting your mail. I really need your help in this matter.
I want to apologize for my intrusion into your life, and the discomfort I may have caused you.
Though we do not know anything about each other, I still believe that relationship and trust are started and earned by a single step.
Please treat me like your family.
Yours sincerely,
Hajiya M.A.
hajiya@box.az
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