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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: "Richard Monk" <rmonk112@msn.com>
Reply-To: rmonk@88.am
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:25:03 +0000
Subject: I am pleased to send my greetings to you.

I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this letter will
definitelycome to you as a surprise; I actually came about your contact
when I
wasbrowsing through the Internet searching for a reliable, trustworthy
and confidential partner who can transact this business with us. I am
thechairman of
the Contract Review/Audit Committee scrutinizing all recordcovering
executed
contract awarded by previous military government ofNigeria. My
colleagues
and I
have uncovered a floating amount ofUSD$22,500,000.00 (Twenty-Two
Million,
Five Hundred Thousand United StatesDollars), without a clear
beneficiary
owing to a deliberate act of overinvoicing and inflating of contract
value
by some past government officials.

This money (USD$22.5M), has already been approved for payment by the
FederalMinistry of Petroleum and Natural Resources and is secured under
Contractnumber
– MMPS/FGN/1233/MMPS-X29/98, Job Completion Certificate
No:6770024MMPS/C
OF 17th Oct. 1998.

As top civil servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank
accountand this is why we want to use your bank account to transfer
this
moneyoutside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner and
will
nowregularize approvals to you as the trust beneficiary of the contract
sum.
As soon as we receive your acceptance, we shall inform you of the
necessaryrequirements from you to facilitate transfer. We have resolved
to
give you20% of
the total sum as compensation for your assistance, 70% is for me andmy
partners
here in Nigeria, 10% is set aside to cover every expensesmade in the
course
of the transaction.

including your private phone and fax numbers for easy communication on
the subject matter.

I am awaiting your immediate reply.

Yours truly,

Richard Monk

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