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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: STEVE MARTHINS <stevemarthins_80@msn.com>
Reply-To: <lilly_smith0001@sify.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:58:28 +0000
Subject: GET BACK TO ME



Attn;



I am Steve Marthins from the hospitality state (Mississippi), of the US
Marine Force on Monitoring and Peace –keeping mission in Baghdad-Iraq.



On the 21st day of December 2008, we were alerted on the sudden
presence of some Terrorists camping in a suburb not too far from
Karbala here in Iraq. After Immediate intervention, we captured three
(3) of the Terrorists, twenty-six (26) were killed leaving seven (7)
injured.



In the process of torture they confessed being rebels for late Ayman
al-Zawahiri and took us to a cave in Karbala which served as their
camp. Here we recovered several guns, bombs and other Ammunitions
including some boxes among which two contains nuclearweapons, one
filled with hard drugs(cocaine) and the other four to my amazement
contain some US Dollars amounting to $23.2M a fter I and two of my
junior intelligent officers counted them.



I however instructed them to keep this in high secrecy.



I am in keen need of a “Reliable and Trustworthy” person like you who
would receive, secure and protect these boxes containing the US
Dollars for me up on till my assignment elapses in here in Iraq.



I assure and=2 0promise to give you 15% of this fund, however feel free to

negotiate what you wish to have as your percentage in this

business.



Please assure me of your keeping this topmost secret to protect my job
with the US Monitoring and Peace-Keeping mission.



Please for the confidentiality of this deal

Kind Regards,

Steve Marthins

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