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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: "Elizabeth Justin" <eliz_justin@btconnect.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:46:05 -0000
Subject: Dear Goss,
Dear Goss,My name is Mrs. Elizabeth Justin. a branch manager and also the personal accounting officer to Late Engineer Johnson Goss, a national of your country, who was an oil merchant/contractor with the federal government of Nigeria. On Saturday 4th may 2002 he had an accident via the ill-fated eas airline crash in Kano. All occupants of the plane unfortunately lost there lives. Since then i have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of his extended relatives, this has proved unsuccessful.You may visit the following websites to read more about the incident.After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the internet, to locate any member of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you to assist in repatriating this money and property left behind by our customer who has a sum of US$ 11,500,000 (Eleven Million Five Hundred Thousand, United States Dollars) left with our bank here in Nigeria before they get confiscated or declared unserviceable by the bank as the banking guidelines stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed for over a period of 5 years and 9 months it will be confisticated that is why I am requesting for you to stand as a next of kin of late Mr. Johnson , because you have the same surname and same country, We are going to have this deal together with his personal lawyer who also has the whole legal documents including the death certificate and police report of his death.The lawyer to Late Engineer Johnson, have gone ahead to prepare an attestation note in your name, as the rightful beneficiary to the fund, which already have been endorsed and certified by the United States Consul General Ambassador Donald McConnell, the fund will be paid to you forthwith, as the beneficiary (if only you heed to this request and work all along with me into it's fruition).in addition to the aforesaid, you will find as Attached in this e-mail, photos of the property and photo of the United States Consul General, Ambassador Donald McConnell, when he endorsed the attestation documents at the bank which will enable payment of the fund to be made to you, as the beneficiary.Furthermore, be informed that your readiness and unrelenting effort to carry out this matter, count because I’ve made every arrangement to facilitate it's fruition, but need you to finalize it. More so, I’ve opted to share the inheritance unvaryingly, between the three of us. Let me hear from you so that the lawyer will get in contact with you for more information , remember I am still working in the bank so I will not like my identity been reviewed before the bank as the lawyer will be dealing with you direct.Please respond only to this emails address for security reasons, remember that i am still working in the bank so do respond to this email address: eliz_justin@strompost.comAwaiting your response.Mrs. Elizabeth Justin.--
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