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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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From: magnus ibe <ibe_ma17@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <m_nus09@yahoo.it>
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:57:06 +0000
Subject: Attention please,
Attention please,Keep this mail and information very confidentialI am the Information and Database analyst of the Treasury/Payment Investigation Department of the Central Bank of Nigeria. The earlier you pay candid attention to this particular email, the better for you. I noticed this just last week when I was going through several out-going payment files on my desk to mark the first payment quarter of CBN.In the process of cross -checking payment files inherited from previous head of this department I realized two particular payment files:(a) The one with series of complicated abnormal entries of a beneficiary who had made efforts towards getting the funds but to no avail, (b) The other with an outstanding contract amount. I then decided to investigate the genesis of the difficulties /hitches to the release of the said funds I found out these: The owners of the fund are late without a will and a mistake was made by the previous secretary who filed the particulars.I'm contacting you: (1.) To stop you from any further contact if you have already made to anybody whatsoever because your financial interest here is not protected. (2) To contact you so that you can claim this outstanding contact amount as the bonafide next of kin knowing fully well that the principal owner died intestate. (3) To inform you that CBN as the Apex Bank of Federal Republic of Nigeria has intercepted your fund as a result of fraudulent activities noticed among those that claim to be helping you.I am pushed to CONTACT you because from what is going on here, if appropriate step is not taken, you will end up making the biggest mistake of your life if I fail to bring this important message concerning the position of your fund to you. Take heed to my mail and its content it will help and avoid you from making a mistake. I am out to help you.REQUIREMENTS:I want you to lay claim to this money as the principal benefactor through me so that I would guide you on how to get your fund directly transferred to your own nominated account at ease. I will personally get any complications corrected at my own expense as soon as possible so that legal transfer of the fund to your account would commence.MY CONDITIONS:1.Due to my position in the bank, I will prefer that you keep my personal involvement 100% secret and confidential even after the transfer is executed.RegardsEngr.Magnus IbeInfo.Tech. & Database AnalystTreasury/Payment Investigation Dept.(CBN).
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