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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 lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • okaidaniel@mail.nu

Fraud email example:

From: "di_directil di_directil" <di_directil@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: okaidaniel@mail.nu
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:33:03 +0000
Subject: Be My Partner

I am Mr Okai Daniel Ifeanyi,
the financial consultant to the late Mr Gyssels
Dieter from Belgium,Mr Gyssels was an oil merchant with estment in the
leading oil Africa. He invested in lifting oil from Niger delta in Nigeria
to other countries where
he sales it. He was the highest shareholder in Shell petroleum Bp in 1994.Mr
Gyssels
Dieter met his untimely death via plane crash in the 2002.I was contacted as
his lawyer by the board of director, shell Bp to look for the
relative of late Mr Gyssels Dieter to enable them transfer the accumulated
share dividend of his investment with the Union bank of NIgeira Plc. it
isabout two years now. I made some research about the relatives of Mr
Gyssels Dieter
and discorvered through some DNA reports that some other two passengers in
the same plane happend to be his wife and only daughter Paula Gyssels Dieter
who also died along with him in the crash.I am contacting you so that both
of us can reach an agreement to enable you act as his next of kin and claim
the fund.Of course they will believe me because I am his Financial
Consultant untill his death. and I have all his business documents with me.I
would have
use someone from here for the purppose but the fact that late Mr Gyssels
Dieter is
a white man made it impossible for me to present a black man as his next of
kin which of course, the bank will not honour.All the documentwill be
validated in your name and shall be drafted by me to include your name in an
application which be forwarded to the bank for the claims.The money is just
USD15.5Million dollars. I will personally monitor the progress of the
transaction as your consultant.After we suceed in transfering the money into
your account, we will give some portion of the money to charity home in your
country and then share the remaining in the ratio 70% to30% between you and
I.If you are willing to work with me in this regard, please, forward to me
through this email address:. (okaidaniel@mail.nu)
1) Your full name and contact address
2) your phone/fax lines

Thanks and God bless you.
Mr Okai Daniel Ifeanyi


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