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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: "Engineer Steven Oladele" <engineersteven@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: engineer01_steven@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 02:54:15 +0100
Subject: Proposal to be our company's foreign representative


Dear Friend/Partner,

I am ENGINEER STEVEN OLADELE, a retired foreign operation manager of First
Bank of Nigeria PLC (FBN) and currently, CEO and owner of STEVCO LTD; a
company based in Lagos, Nigeria.

We are searching for representatives who can help us establish a medium of
getting to our customers in the Canada, America, UK and other parts of
Europe as well as making payments through you to us.
Our company deals on raw petroleum chemicals used for the manufacturing of
petroleum jelly, and also we export raw materials such as non-metallic
minerals like manganese dioxide etc.
Most of our customers pays via checks and sometimes through wire transfer
and we have difficulties in receiving this funds due to the fact that other
country's checks do not clear in Nigeria, it takes a while which our company
wants to try and avoid. Thus, we have opened a job opportunity for you.

As a representative your duty is to receive the payment from our creditors
and in-turn remit the fund to our company as may be specified by our
management crew. This means that your bank account would be used by you on
behalf of our company to receive money owed to our company by our foreign
customers.
10% of every fund received shall be deducted for yourself being your
wages/commission for assisting our company before remittance of the balance
90% to us via the account particulars provided by our management.
An agreement would be drafted to such effect that would make you the legal
representative of the company and also to seal our agreement on the
transferring issue.

Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be glad
to be your partner. Please contact us for more information, subject to your
satisfaction.

You can equally contact us via my alternative email address:
engineer01_steven@yahoo.com

You are require to provide us with the information needed as stated below to
enable us start proper documentation: -

1. Full names
2. Age
3. Current postal/residential address
4. Telephone/fax number

Please note that your areas of specialization or occupation is of no
relevance to resolve to assisting us, and becoming our partner will in no
way affect your present work schedule.

Thanks in advance

Yours sincerely,
ENGINEER STEVEN OLADELE
President/CEO of Stevco Ltd

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