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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: "chika arinze" <arinzechika@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:35:00 +0100
Subject: PLEASE GETBACK TO ME

FROM THE DESK OF:DR. ARINZE CHIKA

DEAR FRIEND

SUBJECT: TRANSFER OF US$20,000,000.00(TWENTY MILLION U.S.DOLLAR) INTO YOUR
ACCOUNT.

May we kindly write you for the transfer of US$20,000,000.00 (TWENTY million
U.S. dollars) into your account.

I am DR.ARINZE CHIKA, a Senior audit accountant with the Federal Ministry of
Mines And Power, Lagos-Nigeria. During our auditing in the last financial
year, my audit team discovered this sum of US$20,000,000.00(TWENTY Million
U. S. Dollars) in the floating account of the Federal Ministry of Mines and
Power.

This money originated as a result of overestimated contracts awarded by the
Federal Ministry of Mines and Power to some Foreign Companies.

Now that these foreign companies have received their contract payments
accordingly, I and my audit team wants to transfer this over-estimated sum
of US$20,000,000.00 into you Account to enable us invest in your country
especially in waste management and container businesses.

I hope that your account can sustain this volume of funds .We are familiar
with the sequence of this transaction and wish to re-assure you that this
business is highly secured and feasible with little or no risk involved.
More importantly, I wish to remind you of the need to keep this transaction
absolutely confidential for all officials involved are Senior Government
functionaries. Further more, on receipt of your acceptance letter, we will
obtain some payment approvals on behalf of your company from Government
offices in Nigeria, which present your company as the executor of a contract
and bonafied beneficiary of the US$20M.

The ministries are the Federal Ministry of Mines and Power, the Federal
Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Nigeria.

With your full cooperation this business will be concluded and the money
transferred into your account within two weeks.

We have decided to earmark 30% of the total sum for the account holder, and
65%for us in Nigeria, while 5% is set aside for any expenses incurred in the
course of this transaction further details will be given to you as soon as I
receive your reply.

Thanks for your anticipated co-operation.

As you reply do not forget to include your telephone and fax numbers for
easy communication and also your postal contact details to enable me get
legal documents on your behalf.

Please direct your reply to :- arinze332249@yahoo.co.uk

Sincerely yours,

DR. ARINZE CHIKA.

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