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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: "Jones Ukah" <manager@unionbankingnigeriaplc.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 23:18:39 +0000
Subject: Please do give me a call immediately for further discussion.

UNION BANK PLC
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Direct email:ukah04@arabia.com
Phone:+ 234-803-4942529.

Attn: President/Ceo

Dear Sir/Madam.

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction, this is by virtue
of it’s nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL.

I am Chief Jones.U. Ukah a Manager of UNION BANK 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 Bank Account requiring maximum confidence.

THE PREPOSITION

The Late Engineer MARK JOHNSON, Lebanese national and an oil
merchant/contractor with the Federal Government of Nigeria, until his death
Six years ago in a ghastly air crash, banked with us here at the UNION BANK
PLC, Lagos, and had a closing balance of USD12,000,000.00 (Twelve Million
Dollars) which the bank now unquestionably expect it to be claimed by MARK
JOHNSON’S next of kin or alternatively be donated to a Charity Organisation
here. Efforts have been made by the UNION BANK, to get in touch with any
of the JOHNSON’S family but to no avail.It is because of the perceived
impossibility of not being able to locate ENGR MARK JOHNSON’S next of kin
that the management under the influence of our Chairman Board of Directors,
Major General Kalu Ike Kalu who has agreed that since the incident occurred
in 1998 and has left the fund dormant and devalued, we should transfer the
fund overseas and utilize it either on stock exchange market or personal
business interest.

Your role is very important as the fund when concluded on transfer will be
justifiably presented
as having been remitted to the next of kin which is assumed to be you. Your
interest will be protected as unnecessary documentation will be avoided and
adequate percentage scheduled for mutual benefit.

1. Account holder 20% (foreign Partner)

2. Nigerian Partner 80% (Nigerian Partner)

Please signal your interest by dispatching your name contact Address,phone,
and fax numbers through my ,Direct email Address:
Prompt realization is being strongly considered by us over here as our
pattern of disbursement.

Please, note that this transaction is 100% risk free and safe as long as you
and I maintain maximum confidentiality and secrecy.I am at disposal to
entertain any question(s) from you with respect to this project, so send me
the above-mentioned equirements immediately throug my email address. I hope
this will be the beginning of a fruitful and mutual beneficial business
relationship.

Please, treat with strictest confidentiality and utmost urgency.

Yours faithfully,

Chief Jones Ukah.

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