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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: "mike mike" <mike26666@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 15:21:31 +0000
Subject: I await your urgent response.

>From the desk of: DR. Denison Eze
Executive Director/Financial Controller
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Falomo Office Annex
Lagos Nigeria

Dear Friend,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am the financial controller of Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation
(NNPC). I got your Contact address from an associate working with the
Nigerian Export Promotion Council. I and my colleagues are ministry
officials in charge of offshore remittance in this Corporation(NNPC).

We are seeking your assistance to transfer of Forty Two Million
(US$42,000,000.00) to your account for further private investment.

This amount accrued from an over-invoiced contract amount for the
construction of an Oil Refinery Sub- Stations in Nigeria in 1995 to
expatriate companies. The contract was originally valued for one
Hundred and Twenty Seven Million United States Dollar US$127,000,000.00)but
we manipulated the figure to read one Hundred and Sixty Nine Million United
States Dollars($169,000,000.00) The extra $42,000,000.00 is what we
want to transfer to your account.

This contract has been completely executed and the original contractors have
been paid all their contract bills less this $42,000,000.00.

For your assistance, we have agreed to remunerate you with 15% because it is
impossible for us to claim the amount here in Nigeria without foreign
collaboration. 5% has been mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses
incurred by either party during this business, and 80% for my colleagues and
myself.

It may interest youto know that four years ago, a similar transaction was
carried out with one Mr.Patrice Miller, the President of Craine
International Trading Corporation at number 135 East 57th Street, 28th
Floor,New York.10022 with Tel: 212-308-7788 and TLX number 6731689. Mr.
Patrice disappeared into thin air when he received the money. His Telephone
and Telex numbers had been reallocated to other users by the time we arrived
New York for our share.

This explains exactly why we will make a concrete agreement between you and
us, should you be willing to assist in this deal.

All modalities to effect the payment and subsequent transfer of this
money have been worked out. This transaction is 100% risk free but rquires
100 percent confidentiality. This is a golden opportunity which must not be
allowed to slip out of any careless acts and utterances.

We chose you for this transaction because we believe that good friends can
be discovered and businesses such as this cannot be realized without trust.

You can rest assured that your security has been considered before you
were contacted.

I await your urgent response.

Best Regards,

Dr.Denison Eze

PLEASE REPLY TO: adamechi2@sify.com


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