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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: a_dasuki@terra.com.mx
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 11:27:37 -0800
Subject: FROM AHMED.

Hello and good day,

I am Director of Civic registration and finance, Nigeria National Orientation
Agency (NNOA)Federal Ministry of Information. Two years ago a bill was passed
into law by the national assembly for the registration and identification
of every Nigerian above the age of 18 years. My agency, (Nigeria National
Orientation Agency (NNOA)) is the supervising organ of the government for
the exercise.

During our final verification exercise we discovered an excess allocation
to our agency tothe tune of Fourteen Million United States Dollar and we
intend to keep this money for our personal use by fronting you as one of
the foreign contractors due for payment. This sum of money (US$14Million)
will be paid into your account as your contractual entitlement.

The good news is that precisely 1st of April, 2004, two years after, the
government has started distributing the national identity card. The reason
I am writing you this mail is that the
president, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo have approved
allocation for payment due to all contractors (Foreign and Local) to the
agency and this gives us
opportunity to move this surplus fund outside Nigeria for possible investment
abroad, but we cannot achieve this without the support of a foreign partner.

We are handicapped in the circumstances, as the Civil service code of conduct
does not allow us to operate offshore accounts, hence the importance of
your co-operation in the whole transaction. Therefore, we want to utilize
this opportunity, as a lot of foreign contractors will be paid in this quarter
of the year 2004 to transfer the fund out of the country.

Please do not disregard this mail and for avoidance of doubt you can verify
the National Identity card project with the Nigerian High Commission in
your country or you visit our website as posted by Nigerian business information
in 2003 when the registration started. But do not disclose my identity or
the actual nature of this transaction as I am still a serving officer in
the ministry.

http://www.nigeriabusinessinfo.com/id-card180203.htm

In other to present you or your Company as the beneficiary of the sum of
US$14M, we will incorporate your company and register you as a contractor
with the Nigerian National Orientation Agency (NNOA). We will also, by virtue
of our official positions secure for you company the necessary backup documentation
that will facilitate the release/transfer of the fund into your account.

These documents of course will be destroyed within 10-14 working days after
the successful completion of the fund transfer into your bank account. We
want to assure you that your help will not in any way bring you or your
company name into disrepute.

Please reply urgently as we expect that the transaction will not take more
than ten working days. We shall discus sharing ratio and other modalities
when I get your response. Please note that this transaction must be top
secret.

For maximum confidentiality of the message, please send me your response
to the following email addresses; (adasuki@indiatimes.com).

Best Regards,
MR. AHMED DASUKI.

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