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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: Abu Nadil <abunadil147@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 10:16:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Good Day Martijn Tilroe


Dear Tilroe,

I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to transfer to your overseas account the sum
of($8,430.000.00 USD)Eight million four hundred and Thirty thousand United States Dollars) from one of the Prime Banks here in Dakar-Senegal.

I am Mr Abu Sal Nadil (Bsc,Msc,) the Auditor General of one of the prime banks here in Dakar Senegal west Africa,during the course of our auditing,I discovered a floating fund in an account opened in the our bank since 1982 and till date no body has operated on this
account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered that the owner of the account died long ago in a plane crash along with his family without leaving a[Heir/WILL] hence the funds is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.

The owner of this account is Engr.Taha Jeremy Tilroe a foreigner, before his death, he was a management consultant and he died since 1992. No other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that until his sudden death he was a management consultant.

Since I hardly know any foreigner,I am only contacting you as a foreigner with thesame surname to stand and apply as his next of kin because this money can not be approved to a local person here as his next of kin, without valid international foreign passport.

I need your full co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this account, which I will give to you upon your positive response and once I am convinced of your capability and assurance that you will never never let me down.

At the conclusion of this business,you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me, while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the process of transferring. I look forward to your earliest reply.

Yours Truly
Mr Abu Sal Nadil.








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