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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: "George Mac" <georgemac2@msn.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 09:22:42 +0000
Subject: Pls read and get back to me!.-

FROM THE DESK OF
MR.GEORGE MAC
ACCOUNTANT GENERAL
UNION BANK OF NIG. PLC
LAGOS, NIGERIA.



CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS PROPOSAL


Compliments of the season. Relationship is a concept
that is inevitable and natural because man is
interdependent hence, I wish to humbly seek your hands
in a business relationship through this medium.

Without mincing words, I'm an Accountant with the
Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, Lagos-Nigeria. In the
process of executing my official duty of
accounting/auditing the Banks, Bill and exchange
department of the foreign remittance bureau, I
discovered in a DOMICILIARY account favoring a foreign
customer, a floating sum of US$5.2m standing to be
sent into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

Based on this discovery, the department concerned was
subjected to questioning as to ascertain the
authencity of the facts and figures found in the file
containing the said sum coupled with their (bank)
prospective actions against the account and thus, it
became obvious that the said amount belongs to a one
time contractor with the ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST
AFRICAN STATES (ECOWAS) an ATLANTA USA citizen named
Dr. George Washington Brumley, who died in Kenya plane
crash with his family of which nobody was left behind
to stand as his next of kin. The bank authenticated
their claim by exposing to me the websites covering
his death as post dated by CNN news report which I
visited;

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,6119,2-11-1447_1390368,00.html

However, as a professional Accountant, I advised the
bank to suspend sending the fund into their treasury
as a precautionary measure against any unforeseen
contingencies. They accepted my advice, and it is here
that I want you to come In pretending to be his next
of kin so that we can profit from this situation and
have the fund transferred into your account for both
of us as a foreigner.

Finally, on your acceptance, I shall send you the data
information from his file that can guide you
successfully to claim this fund into your account and
subsequently, 40% will be for you in respect of the
account provided for this transaction. Note equally
that this transaction is a risk free one. Please
contcat me through e-mail address
georgemaclatinmail.com


Yours sincerely,

Mr.George Mac.

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