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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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• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
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Fraud email example:

From: Accountant General of the Federation <dankwabo56@msn.com>
Reply-To: <accdankwabohi2@live.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:14:49 +0000
Subject: Re: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED INT'L BANK
DRAFT, WIRE TRANSFER OR CASH DELIVERY



Re: PAYMENT OF YOUR OUTSTANDING DEBT VIA CERTIFIED INT'L BANK DRAFT, WIRE TRANSFER OR CASH DELIVERY



Attn: Beneficiary


This is to inform you that the Presidency has stepped into the payment of your contract / inheritance fund. The instruction to this Board to authorize your payment was given by the President himself Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar'Adua following intelligence report on contract payment he received which revealed that the lower offices and department including some departments of (CBN) are engaging in the practice of payment delays through unnecessary use of bureaucratic office processes and imposition of unauthorized fees. This apart has been allegations that some officials of NNPC and CBN deliberately divert funds approved with the name of a beneficiary to accounts that were not given by the known contractor/ inheritance after the due processing and approval of such payment.


To avoid and curtail such, official misconduct and deliberate delay of foreign contractor?s payment under one flimsy reason or the other, the President of the Country therefore mandated this office to raise contractor?s and inheritance payment and ensure that such payments are received by the beneficiary within a short period of five (5) days from the day of notice.


Based on the information contained in your payment files and records submitted to us from NNPC, CBN, and FMF your name was in the list of Category ?A? beneficiaries whose payments have been verified and approved with the records indicating that your payment has long been over due. The directive from the President based on all these findings is that this office should make immediately uninterrupted payment of your contract/inheritance fund direct from the Federal Treasury. Other offices including CBN earlier handling your payment has been advised to hand over to this office to avoid duplication of efforts, though such offices hesitate to let you know of this new development.


This panel hereby uses this medium to congratulate you and heart fully thank you for your patience and understanding during all this years of delays on your fund. In respect of this, this office held a meeting with the representatives of concerned govt. bodies during which your contract file and other information of your payment were submitted. After going through your file a lot of official irregularities, impending stop orders and complexities surrounding the payment were discovered. This office and the concerned bodies unanimously decided and approved that your payment will be raised in Certified International
Bank Draft. The draft will be raised either in your name or in the name of your Company as the beneficiary. As soon as the draft is raised and signed off by you, you will be required to present the draft at your bank for confirmation and crediting of fund into your account. This will take 3-5 days of depositing of draft in your bank. I will advice you to reconfirm your details to me so that I can verify that you are the genuine beneficiary of the sum.


NOTE: Should you want your payment via telegraphic wire transfer or cash delivery, quickly get back to me to enable us proceed.


Further details concerning your payment will be given to you once you contact the under signed on EMAIL: accdankwabohi2@live.com OR Phone: +2347026762921.


Mr. Dankwabo H. I
(Accountant General of the Federation)
TEL: +2347026762921
CELL: +2347058633667

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