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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
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  • mark_abayomi@excite.com
  • mark_abayomi@excite.com

Fraud email example:

From: ABAYOMI MARK <markaba2@boursomail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 02:24:43 -0000
Subject: PROPOSAL FOR YOU.





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7 Adefobi Street,
Ikoyi Island,lagos
IFAX;1316-223-0672

Alternative mailbox: mark_abayomi@excite.com

ATTENTION CEO/DIRECTOR

Dear Sir,

I would like to firstly send to you the best wishes of
good health and success in your pursuits particularly
through my proposal as contained in this letter.Before
going into details of my proposal to you, I must first
implore you to treat with the utmost confidentiality as
this is required for its success and to have faith in this
transaction,for opportunities like this only comes to one
once in a life time.

My colleagues and I are senior officials of the Federal
Government of my countrys Contracts Review Panel (CRP)
who are interested in diverting somefunds that are
presently floating in the accounts of the Apex Bank
of my country.In order to commence this transaction, we
solicit for your assistance to enable us transfer into
your nominated account the said floating funds.We are
determined to conclude the transfer before the end of this
quarter of 2005.

The source of the funds are as follows: During the last
military regime in my ountry,government officials set up
companies and awarded themselves contracts that were
grossly over-invoiced in various ministries and
parastatals.The present civilian government set up the
Contract Review Panel, which has the mandate to use the
instruments of payments made available to it by the decree
setting up the panel, to review these contracts and if
necessary pay those who are being owed outstanding
amounts.

My colleagues and I have identified quite a huge sum of
these funds which are presently floating in our (Apex)
Central Bank ready for disbursement and would like to
divert some of it for our own purposes.However,by virtue
of our positions as civil servants and members of this
panel,we cannot acquire these funds in our names or in the
names of companies that are based in my country. I have
therefore been mandated,as a matter of trust by my
colleagues in the panel, to look for a reliable overseas
partner into whose account we can transfer the sum
of .S.$20,500,000.00 (Twenty million, five hundred
thousand U.S.dollars).That is why I am seeking your
assistance.

We have agreed to share the money to be transferred into
your account, ifyou agree with our proposition as follows;

(i)25 to the account owner(you).

(ii)65 for us (the panel officials).

(iii)10 to be used in settling all expenses (by both you
and us)

Incidental to the actualization of this project.We wish to
invest our share of the proceeds of this project in
foreign stockmarkets and other viable business till we are
ready and able to have access to them without
raising any eyebrows here at home.

Please note that this transaction is 100 safe and risk-
free.We intend to effect the transfer within fourteen (14)
banking days from the date of receipt of the following
information through the ifax number stated above:Your
companys address,telephone and fax numbers we will use
your company name to name, apply for the payment and
backdate the award of the contract in favour of your
company.We are looking forward to doing this
transaction with you and we solicit for your utmost
confidentiality in this transaction. I will bring you into
a more detailed picture of this transaction when I hear
from you.

Please get in touch through my my IFAX # 1316-223-0672. .

Here is my alternative address:
mark_abayomi@excite.com

Best regards,

MARK ABAYOMI








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