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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: "DAN WATER" <dan_water2@msn.com>
Reply-To: danchambers_org@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:44:39 +0000
Subject: ATTN:MAHONEY,FOR PARTNERSHIP INVESTMENT!!

Dear Mahoney,

Complement of the season!

I am sending this mail to you as a matter of urgency, for business fund
investment transfer, which you are required to secure for an investment in
your country, I decided in contact you due to the urgency of this fund
transaction, as I have been reliably noted in mind on your discreteness and
ability for investment of this fund to family of the late. Mr. Fredrick,I
find it easies to use your name since to secure the inheritance fund since
you bear the same related name with my late client for their future
Investment, Let me hereby introduce myself to you, I am Barrister Dan
Walter, an advocate and Solicitor. I am the Personal Attorney to Mr.
Fredrick, who used to work with Shell Oil Development Company. Is quit
unfortunate on the 15 of April 2003, my client was involved in a car
accident along Sagbama Express Road, leaving behind his wife Nancy and her
two children, on the aged of 6 and 3 years respectively.

Since then, members of his immediate family has constantly harassed and
intimidated his wife, Nancy (it is actually the tradition of their native
land for the deceased brothers to inherit his properties). They have
collected and seized the man’s properties, collected his bank account
papers, forcefully confisticated and shared his cars as well as documents to
his two houses and sent her packing out of her husband’s house.

All my attempts and several other attempts by friends at resolving the
crisis by calling the parties involved to a meeting has been unsuccessful.
The law court could not handle the issue since the traditional rulers have
come out to say it’s their tradition.
Recently, the wife Nancy, has intimated me about US$15.5million that her
late husband lodged in a security company. Upon investigation, I discovered
that her late husband made this money through some over-invoiced contract he
awarded during his tenure as the head of CONTRACT/PROCUREMENT DEPARTMENT of
The Shell Oil Development Company .She said, one of her relatives who used
to live with them and is probably knows little about the fund while his
trying to instigated other members of the family against her, with the view
to collecting The CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSITE to this fund and probably
collecting the fund for sharing amongst themselves.

So, I write this letter on her behalf, seeking for your assistance in
receiving this fund on her behalf for safe-keeping and possibly investing it
to yield profits for the upkeep of her and her two children and This fund is
her last hope of training her two children and living a meaningful life on
earth.

On your acceptance to receive and keep this fund for her, you will be
entitled for the 30% of the total sum, and 10% of the fund has to been sat
aside after the fund is transfer in other to take care of all expenses that
might arise in the course of this transfer while the remaining 60% is for
her and her family. She is now on the right possession by having the
original documents and that is to be used for the effective transfer of the
fund to you without hitches.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see this transaction
through. I Guarantee to you that this transaction will be executed under a
legitimate arrangement that will protect you from every breach of the Law.

Please get in touch with through.

Thanks and stay bless
Barr. Dan Walter.



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