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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: Usman Bello <be4belluss0039@live.com>
Reply-To: <us404bello@yahoo.com.sg>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:48:38 +0100
Subject: TRANSACTION LETTER VERY PRIVATE



TRANSACTION LETTER VERY PRIVATEFROM CHAIRMAN CONTACT AWARD & MONITORING COMMITTEESir,This letter might come as a surprise to you especially since we have nevermet or discuss before. Basically, the message might sound strange but itis factual in reality if only you care to know.The truth is that I should have notified you first through a moreconfidential means, (even if it's atleast to respect your integrity) please accept my humble apologies if ihad caught you unawares, ifrankly do not mean any harm in passing my message. We are members of theSpecial Committee for Budget and Planning of the Ministry of Petroleum andMineral Resources. This committee is principally concerned with contractappraisal and the approval of contract in orderof priorities as regardscapital projects of the federal excutive government of Nigeria with ourpositions we have successfully secured for ourselves the sum of Twentymillion five hundred thousand dollars (us$20.5M) the amount wasaccumulated from the over invoice.Hence, together with some of the top officials of the Nigerian NationalPetroleum Corporation and the Federal Ministry of Finance. We plan totransfer this amount of money twenty million five hundred thousand dollars(us$20.5M) into an overseas account by awarding a non existing contractfrom my ministry (NNPC). To this effect i decided to contact you and askfor your assistance. What we need from you sir, is to provide a veryvital account in which the funds will be transferred. Mycolleagues and I have agreed to compensate the owner of the account usedfor this transaction with 25% of the total amount remitted. We shall keep73% and remaining 2% reserved for taxes andother miscellaneous expenses.Finally, the confidence and trust reposed on you cannot be overemphasised. Therefore, you are to keep this deal to yourselfconfidentially. Calibre of personnels involved are men in government.Socannot effort to loose our respective reputation to our dear country ifjeopardise by you.Contact me urgently with private detial infomations for our easiercommunication.YOURS FAITHFULLY,MR USMAN BELLO,CHAIRMAN CONTRACT AWARD & MONITORING COMMITTEE
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