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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: "george benneth" <georgebenneth@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 16:45:52 +0000
Subject: Attn.

From:Mr.George Benneth
ACCOUNTANT, UBN
LAGOS - NIGERIA
EMAIL: :georgebenneth@hotmail.com
TEL/FAX: 234-9-2721973.

Dear Friend,

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
if its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL and TOP SECRET. Though I know
that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and
worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day.
We have decided to contact you due to the urgency of this transaction, as we
have been reliably informed of your discreteness and ability in transactions
of this nature.
Let me start by first introducing myself properly to you. I am Mr.George
Benneth an Accountant with the Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.Lagos.I came to
know of you in my private search for a reliable and Reputable person to
handle this confidential transaction, which involves the transfer of a huge
sum of money to a foreign account requiring maximum confidence.


THE PROPOSITION:
A foreigner, Late Engineer Walter Tang Min, an Oil Merchant/Contractor with
the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death five years ago in a
ghastly air crash, banked with us here at Union Bank Plc. Lagos, and had a
closing balance of US$13.5M (Thirteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand United
States Dollars)which the bank now unquestionably expectsit to be claimed by
any available foreign next-of-kin of the Late beneficiary or alternatively
be donated to a discredited trust fund for arms and Ammunition at a
military war college here in Nigeria.

Fervent valuable efforts are being made by the Union Bank to get in touch
with any of the Walter's family or relatives but proved to avail. It is
because of the perceived possibility of not being able to locate any of Late
Engineer Walter Tang Min's next-of-kin (he had no known wife and children)
that the management under the influence of our chairman and member of the
board of rectors, retired Major General Kalu Uke Kalu, that an arrangement
be made for the funds to be declared “UNCLAIMABLE“and subsequently be
donated to the Trust Fund for Arms and Ammunition to further enhance the
course of war in Africa and the world in general.

In order to avert this negative development, so of my trusted colleagues and
I now seek your permission to have you stand as a next-of-kin to Late
Engineer Walter Tang Min. so that the funds US$13.5M would be released and
paid into your bank account as the beneficiary next-of-kin.

All documents and proves to enable you get this fund will be carefully
worked out and more so we are assuring you of a 100% risk free
involvement.Your share stays while the rest would be for my colleagues for
and myself Investment purposes in your country. We have agreed that, the
funds will be shared thus, after it has been transferred into your account
1. 30% of the money will go to you for acting as the beneficiary of the
funds. 2. 10% will be set aside for reimbursement to both parties for any
incidental expenses that may be incurred in the course of the transfer. 3.
60% to us the originators of the transaction.

If this proposal is OK by you and you do not wish to take undue advantage of
the trust, we hope to bestow on you and your company, then kindly get to me
immediately via my private Email:georgebenneth@hotmail.com)) for security
reason.

Furnishing me with your most confidential telephone, fax number and
exclusive bank particulars so that I can use this information to apply/taly
it for the release and subsequent transfer of the funds in your favor.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated co-peration.

Yours faithfully,
Mr.George Benneth.

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