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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: "MR TUNDE BELLO" <tunde_belo775@libero.it> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:37:28 -0700
Subject: PARTNERSHIP WITH TRUST

Mr Tunde Bello
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc.,
Lagos,Nigeria.


Dear Friend,

I am Mr Tunde Bello Manager of Union Bank of
Nigeria Plc., Lagos, Nigeria. I have urgent and very
confidential business proposition for you.


On June 6, 1999, a Foreign Oil consultant/contractor
with the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation,
Mr.Barry Kelly made a numbered time (Fixed)Deposit
for twelve calendar months, valued at US$45,500,000.00
( Fourty Five Million Five hundred Thousand Dollars only) in
my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a routine
notification to his forwarding address but got no
reply.

After a month,we sent a reminder and finally we
discovered from his contract employers, the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation that Mr. Barry Kelly
died from an automobile accident. On further
investigation, I found out that he died without making
a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was
fruitless.

I therefore made further investigation and discovered
that Mr. Barry Kelly did not declare any kin or
relations in all his official documents, including his
Bank Deposit paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$10,500,000.00 has carefully been moved
out of my bank to a security company for safe-keeping.
No one will ever come forward to claim it. According
to Nigerian Law, at the expiration of 5 (five) years,
the money will revert to the ownership of the Nigerian
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund.

Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as
an Foreigner to stand in as the owner of the money I
deposited it in a security company in
two trunk boxes though the security company does not
know the contents of the boxes as I tagged them to be
photographic materials for export.

I am writing you because I as a public servant can not
operate a foreign account or have an account that is
more than $1m.I want to present you the owner of the
boxes in the security company so you can be able to
claim them with the help of my attorney.All these are
to make sure that the fruits of this old man's labor
will not get into the hands of some corrupt
government officials.

This is simple. I will like you to provide immediately
your full names and address so that the Attorney will
prepare the necessary documents whichwill put you in
place as the as the owner of the boxes.


The money will be moved out for us to share in the
ratio of 70% for me and 25% for you and 5% will take
care of all expenses.There is no risk at all as all
the paperwork for this transaction will be done by the
Attorney and this will guarantee the successful
execution of this transaction.

If you are interested, please reply immediately via my
email upon your response, I shall then provide you
with more details and relevant documents that will
help you understand the transaction.

Please observe with utmost confidentiality, and be
rest assured that this transaction would be most
profitable for both of us because I shall require
your assistance to invest my share in your country.

Thanks and regards.
Mr Tunde Bello
Union Bank Plc.






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