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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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  • drkalmalimusa_33@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: drkalmalimusa_33@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:44:07 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?IMMEDIATE=20CONTRACT=20PAYMENT=2E?=

Director, Project Implementation,
Federal Ministry of Health and Social Services,
Abuja Nigeria.
Strictly Confidential
Atte: Ceo/ Director

IMMEDIATE CONTRACT PAYMENT.

ATT,

Transfer Of $7.5M (Seven million five hundred thousand United
States dollars).

May I crave your indulgence to this business discussion by a formal letter
of this sort, its is pertinent that business of this magnitude should have
commenced properly with a formal meeting of you and us to enable us know
ourselves, have a fore knowledge of the nature of the business, discuss
and acquaint our selves with the responsibilities and functions of parties
concerned, However, for the time factor and personalities involve we have
chosen this means of communication tostart,

I am Dr.Kalmali Musa the Director for Project Implementation for Federal
Ministry of Health and Social Services Abuja Nigeria
Based on the approval of the above stated amount for contracts awarded to
an offshore company for the supply ofhealth equipments in my ministry,
we intend to transfer this amount to an offshore account and we solicit
your assistance and cooperation on the assumption that you will not disappoint
us because as civil servant workers we are not allowed
to operate an offshore bank.

This amount arose as a result of over invoiced and over inflated
contracts in my ministry. We therefore seek your permission to remit
this amount into your account or any other nominated account you can provide
for us. Your commission will be 40% of the total sum, 10% for expenses
and the remaining 50% is for my colleagues and me.
Could you please acknowledge the receipt of this letter and state your willingness
to assist and give us your private telephone number and fax
number for easy contact. I shall inturn inform you of the modalities to
secure the immediate transfer of the fund into your account, here is my
Private e-mail you can reach me for more
details;drkalmalimusa_33@yahoo.com
Thanks for your anticipated cooperation.

Yours sincerely,
Dr.KALMALI MUSA.

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