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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: momane <martins_omane2@yahoo.co.uk> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 22:13:24 -0400
Subject: PLEASE ASSIST ME


Secretary to the Niger Delta Development Commission,
Old Secretariat Complex,
Victorial-Island, Lagos.

Dear Sir,

I am a highly placed official of Government of Nigeria
and also a founding member of the ruling Peoples
Democratic Party(PDP).

My committee - The Niger Delta Development
Commission(NDDC)-which is in charge of managing and
supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues for
the Nigerian government which covers payment to
foreign and local contractors that have executed
contracts for our country.The revenue under our
control runs into several hundred of millions of
dollars monthly.Myself and other colleagues in the
NDDC are currently in need of a foreign partner with
whose bank account we shall transfer the sum of Forty
Nine Million Five Hundred Thosand United States
Dollars($49.5m). This fund was accrued from various
over invoicing of foreign contractors' payments made
over the years.

The Total fund is presently waiting in the Government
Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account
Central Bank of Nigeria.However, by virtue of our
position as civil servants and members of the NDDC, we
cannot acquire this funds in our name. This is because
as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law of
the land to own or operate bank accounts outside our
country for now.

I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my
colleagues, to look for an overseas partner in whose
account we would transfer the fund,hence the reason
for this mail.We shall be Transferring the money to
your account with your company as the beneficiary,
under the guise that you are being paid for a contract
which you/your company executed for our country
through the NDDC and any other Federal Ministry that
we decide to use to siphon the funds through.

For your support and partnership,please reply me to
negotiate your fees or the percentage you wish to be
paid when the funds arrive your bank account. You must
however note that this transaction, with regards to
our disposition to continue with you, is subject to
these terms. Firstly, our conviction of your
transparency.Secondly, that you treat this transaction
with utmost secrecy and confidentiality. Finally and
above all, that you will provide an account over which
you have absolute control .

The transaction, although discrete, is legitimate and
there is no risk or legal lliability either to
ourselves or yourself now or in the future as we have
put in place the neccesary machinery that will ensure
a hitch free transfer into your account upon
acceptance.

The transfer will be effected to your account within
ten to fourteen (10-14) working days from the date we
reach an agreement and you furnish me with your
contact telephone and fax numbers.

I am looking forward to doing business with you and do
solicit your confidentiality in this transaction,
Please mail your response to me through my
confidential email address; martinsomane1@yahoo.fr
for me to update you on our plans as to how we intend
to actualize this transaction.

Yours Sincerely,

MARTINS OMANE

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