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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: "Ben Nzeribe" <dr_nzeribe6@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 15:02:46 +0000
Subject: Dear Sir/Madam,

BILL AND EXCHANGE OF
THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF
ZENITH BANK LTD,
LAGOS.NIGERIA.
contact me at:ben_nziribe@myway.com


Date 1st/11/2005.


Dear Sir/Madam,

I'm Dr Ben Nzeribe, Operations Officer, BILL AND EXCHANGE of THE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF ZENITH BANK PLC,LAGOS.NIGERIA.

In my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of US$7.500,000 (Seven
million five hundrend United states dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family
in 0ctomber,1999 in a plane crash.

Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release
it unless some body applies for it as next of Kin or relative to the
deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but
unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died
with him in the accident leaving nobody behind to claim the money. It
is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it
and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasure as unclaimed bills.

The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after Six and half years, the money will be
transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for a
foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact
that the customer was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next of
kin to
the deceased family. We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you
as foreign partner, in respect of your assistance in this business, and
70 % would be for me and two of my staff in the business.

Thereafter,I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enhance the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first
to the Bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your
private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication
and location where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your
reply,

I will send to you by fax or e-mail the text of the application.I will
not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is hitch free
and that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer.You should contact me on
MY E-MAIL, as soon as you receive this letter. I decided to contact you
as you have products of interest in your part of the world where we can
invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we are civil
servants.

Note that we can conclude this operation within ten banking days.Please
keep this very confidential for obvious security reasons. Contact me
for more information, all confirmable before you apply if you want.
Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed information which are
confirmable before you can make up your mind to apply.If however,you
are not interested,do let me know by return maill too as I will not
contact anybody else until
I hear from you.Write me immediately through my private email address
at: ben_nziribe@myway.com



May God be with you.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Ben C.Nzeribe

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