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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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
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Fraud email example:
From: Mustapha Sani <mustaphafamily@emsergipe.com>
Reply-To: mustaphafamily@caramail.com
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 05:47:17 -0300
Subject: Associate
Dear Friend,
This mail will definately come to you as a surprise, but not to worry as i shall explain my person and the reason for writing. I am Mustapha Sani Abacha, son of the former late head of state of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha.
Presently, my family has been going through trying moments after the death of our father on June 8th 1998 especially from this present government who are bent on recoverying all sums of foriegn currency that my father had abroad in foreign accounts. Due to this same issue, my mother has been banned from travelling outside of Nigeria and my elder brother, Mohammed Abacha is right now a political detainee and under house arrest, and my immediate older brother Abba is now been held in a prison in Geneva Switzerland facing trial by the swiss authories on chargers of transfering/laundering $700,000,000.00.
After due consultations with my mother and members of my family, we decided that I should lead the quest to get a foreign assistance to help in securing these funds in foriegn accounts and othersthat my late father had deposited in a security vault, amounting to $50.8m (Fifty million eight hundred thousand United States Dollars), before this present government gets wind of them and clamp down on the money. It is on the basis of this that I am reaching out to you, and soliciting your candid support and assistance to secure the funds.
In the event that I can trust you to render the family this support, we shall arrange a meeting to discuss the issues involved in claiming the fund, your reward, and the documents relating to the money in question and your advice on investment opportunities.
Please let me state that we need a high level of security in the process of this transaction, therefore, let us maintain it so that the information concerning the security vault does not get into unwanted ears. Please for the purpose of this project, communications will be through my family's alternative e-mail account at mustaphafamily@caramail.com and when it warrants we shall talk on my telephone number 234-80-5431-4764, which will be as we progress.
Thanking you in advance for your kind gesture to my family.
Best regards.
Mustapha Sani Abacha.
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