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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: "Mr.Paul Zinga" <mrpaulzinga@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 10:20:54 +0000
Subject: Your Urgent Attention Needed Please.

Midas International Bank
>From The Desk Of
Mr. Paul Zinga
Private Email:paulzingamib@gmail.com
Telephone:234-806-017-6198

Dear Sir/Madam

I am Mr. Paul Zinga of the Midas International Bank. I am the personel
Account Manager of Mr.Patrick Moller,a nationale of your country, who used
to work with Shell Petrolum Development Company here in Nigeria.

On the 22nd Sept, 2000,our customer,and his wife and their three children
were involved in a car accident along sagbama express road. All occupants of
the vehicle unfortunately lost there lives. Since then I have made several
enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended relatives but this
has also proved unsuccessful.

I am contacting you now to assist in repartrating the money and property
left behind by our customer before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by our bank where he deposited fifteen million five hundred
united states dollars sum off US$25.5 million dollar in our bank the Midas
International Bank.

The banking guidelines of our bank stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed for over a period of years and few months, with the account
unservicable the money will be confisicated and this will happen after the
next Year if nobody comes for the money. Since.we have not seen any body for
the money and his property for the last 5 years and our bank has been
notifying the Rotary club for the past 3 year,may I now seek your consent to
present yourself as the next of kin of the deceased ,so that the proceeds of
this account valued at US$25.5million dollars can be paidto you and then you
and I can share the money.

I guarantee that this will be executed underlegitimate arrangement that will
protect you from any breach of the law. Please, kindly get in touch with me
through the above email address or the contact numbers also indicated.

Best regards,

Mr. Paul Zinga

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