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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: "muhammed muhammed" <muhammed688@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: kemokiki@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:15:27 -0900
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE PLEASE
Dear sir
I am Mr Okiki Kem a lawyer by profession and i am contacting you on behalf
of my embattle client who happened to be a Governor in the oil rich state
called Bayelsa in Nigeria. He is currently facing series of charges on his
involement in money laundering, public fund embezzlement and jumping bail in
England , escaping misteriously back to Nigeria to carry out his
Governorship administrative duties, but had to be impeached as a Gorvenor
and subsequently arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commision,
while waiting for extradiction back to England.
Siting these travail and ordeal of my client Mr Diepreye Alamieyesiegha, i
am appealing to you to keep this information and proposal as top secret,
right now i have been empowered by my client's wife to arrange for a trusted
person as a partner, who will not take advantage of the present predicament
or distance to further thier prevailing problem, as you are reading, my
clients' family has a whooping sum of $20,000,000 usd(twenty million united
state dollars) in an undisclosed financial and security company, please keep
a seal mouth about this to avoid the authority clamping down or confiscating
the funds as it has done to others of his account.
All arrangement have been perfected to transfer this funds into any trusted
account abroad in other to assists him fund his trials to regain his
freedom, and to do this successfully, an immediate action has to be taken on
your side, you are require to sent to me your full names, address, private
telephone and fax number, your bank particulars and account, so an affidavid
will be taken in the high court on your behalf as benefied owner of the
funds, thereafter an invoice will be drawn from the Ministry in your favour
as a back log debt owe to you by the past administration and the funds will
be authomatically and legally transfer to your account on your instruction.
Please, let me affirm you that base on the arrangement so far , this
transaction bears no risk of any kind as it has been perfected and your
share of the total sum is 30%. It will be comfortable to take advantage on
the euphoria of the season and prevailing circumstances to effect action
without delay as this transaction is expected to take less than 14 working
days to be completed .
Contact me on your acceptance while i am still in London, dont forget
please, keep a seal mouth, top secret.
Best Regards
Barr. Kem Okikiola
View this website for more info:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20051210-11232300-bc-nigeria-arrest.xml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4491382.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4491382.stm
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