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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: Rosemary Kofe <kofe_rosemary@yahoo.co.uk>
Reply-To: rosemary.kofe@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:06:57 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: please confirm urgently





RE: RECONCILIATION OF ACCOUNT DETAIL.  
SIR, 
With reference to the approvals received from UN Financial  offshore Banking Corp, Geneva,Switzerland. Be informed that your payment file of ($16.3m) has been forwarded to this office for immediate account Reconciliation and subsequent for outright payment, and we have also been mandated to double check your file record as final confirmation towards the release of your funds becomes mandatory to avoid wrong payment.
In regards to the aforementioned payment instructions, take note that we are still in doubt on which Account to credit the outstanding funds, since the Account forwarded to this office below is different from the account in the original application of claim.Have you authorise Mr Marcus for your payment with the account stated below?.
PAYMENT TO:
V L. V. MARCUS T
( Name Of Bank: BARCLAYS 
IBN # : GB70BARC20965550609978
SORT CODE: 20-96-55
ACCT # : 50609978,SWIFT # BIC BARCG B22
ADDRESS OF BANK: WILDENS GREEN BRANCH
WESTMORELAND HOUSE,SCOTTS LANE LONDON, NW10 6AH
Please reconfirm your nominated Bank co-ordinates within 24 hours of receipt of this advice to our payment consortium here in Lome Togo . West Africa. (FOREIGN PAYMENT REVIEW COMMISSION). In the meantime, you are advised strongly to suspend further communication/correspondence with any other office as this might distort the progress we are making towards releasing your funds. Furthermore you are advised to forward your private phone numbers for further clarification, please cross check the account details properly to avoid making payment into the wrong account coordinates. . This is very important with regards to the content of this mail.  
Kind regards.
Dr.Mrs Rose Mary 
Account Auditor

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