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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • smithray1975@yahoo.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Mr. Smith Ray" <smith_ray@myway.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 21:11:11 -0500 (EST)
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION










>From the Office Of Smith Ray# 27907 V.G.CTelephone:-234-80-6009-5721.Private Email:- smithray1975@yahoo.comAttn Sir,I want to transfer ($21,000.000.00 USD) Twenty one million United StatesDollars from a INTERCONTINENTAL BANK, here to oversea account. First, I mustsolicit your strictest confidence in this transaction. This is by virtue ofit's nature as being utterly confidential. I am sure and have confidence ofyour ability and reliability to prosecute a transaction of this greatmagnitude.I solicit your assistance to enable us transfer the said amount into yoursafe account for onward investment. You can either provide us with anexisting account or to set up a new Bank account immediately to receive thismoney, even an empty a/c can serve to receive this money, as long as youwill remain honest to me till the end for this important business trustingin you and believing that you will never let me down either now or infuture.I am the personal account officer to a great late
INDUSTRIALIST whohas an account in one of the top banks here in Nigeria.The account was opened in 2001 and he died in 2003 without a written or oralWILL and since 2001 nobody has operated on this account again hence themoney is floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will befor feited for nothing since the bank has been sold on Wed, 19 Mar 2004 toanother bank and the management of the bank is now ready to release the fundto any foreigner who has the correct information of the account before fullyhanding over the management to the new bank. The owner of this account is a foreigner and no other person knows about thisaccount or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiaryand until his death he was the manager of the company .My investigation through the National immigration department proved to me aswell that he was single as at the point of his entry into the Republic ofNigeria. The amount in this account is USD$21 Million (Twenty one
MillionUnited States Dollars ) only. As a matter of fact, I have decided totransfer this fund abroad for investment. Your assistance as a foreigner isnecessary because the management of the bank will welcome any foreigner who hascorrect information to this account which I will give you immediately, if you are interested to do this business with me.There is no risk to this usiness. With my position and my personal contactwith the manager of the bank, the money can be transferred to any accountyou can provide with assurance that this money will be intact pending ourphysical arrival in your country for sharing.We will start the first transfer with six million [$6,000.000]. Upon successful transfer without any disappointment from your side, we shall re-apply for the payment of the remaining balance of $15 million to your account. I am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here, but can only be approved to any foreigner who has
the correct information of Theaccount which I will provide to you. So you should provide me with yourcorrect account detail where you will like the fund to be transferred oryou can set up a new account for the transfer even an empty account isok.At the conclusion of the transfer you will take 35% for you, 5% for anyexpenses incurred in this business and the remaining 60% for me. As soon asI hear from you and upon your strong assurance that you will not let me downonce the fund goes into your account I will then start to process thetransfer of the fund to your account without further delay. Contact meurgently for further details through email or phone. {smithray1975@yahoo.com } TELEPHONE NUMBER,234-80-6009-5721.Thanks.Yours Faithfully,Mr Smith Ray.



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