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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. John Nasir - Ministry of Mining and Mineral Resources Lusaka, Zambia" <johnnasir2004@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: lyudmila1@tiscali.cz
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 09:11:11 +0100
Subject: Hello.

Please for confidential and security reasons, send your response to my
confidential
email address; lyudmila1@tiscali.cz

Mr. John Nasir
lyudmila1@tiscali.cz

REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION.
Dear Friend,
I am interested in your partnership in a business
dealing. This business
proposal I wish to intimate you with is of mutual
benefit and it's success
is entirely based on mutual trust, cooperation and a
high level of
confidentiality as regard this transaction.
I am representing the board of the contract award and
monitoring committe of
the Zambian Ministry of Mining and Mineral Resources.
I am seeking your
assistance to enable me transfer the sum of
US$12,670,000.00 (Twelve
Million, Six Hundred and Seventy Thousand United
States Dollars) into your
private/company account.
The fund came about as a result of a contract awarded
and executed for and
on behalf of my Ministry. The contract was supposed to
be awarded to two
foreign contractors to the tune of US$160,000,000.00
(One hundred and Sixty
Million United States Dollars). But in the course of
negotiation, the
contract was awarded to a Bulgarian contractor at the
cost of
US$134,000,000.00 (One hundred and thirty four
Million United States Dollars) to our benefit
unknown to the
contractor.
This contract has been satisfactorily executed and
inspected as the
Bulgarian firm is presently securing payment from my
Ministry, where our
Board is in-charge of all foreign contract payment
approval. As a civil
servant still in active government service, I am
forbidden by law to operate
an account outside the shores of Zambia. Hence this
message to you seeking
your assistance so as to enable me present your
private/company account
details as a beneficiary of contractual claims
alongside that of the
Bulgarian contractor, to enable me transfer the
difference of
US$12,670,000.00 (Twelve Million, Six Hundred and
Seventy Thousand United
States Dollars) into your provided account.
On actualisation, the fund will be disbursed as stated
below.
1. 20% of the fund will be for you as beneficiary
2. 80% of the fund will be for Us.
All logistics are in place and all modalities worked
out for a smooth
actualisation of the transaction within the next few
working days of
commencement. For further details as to the
workability of this
transaction,please reach me as soon as possible for
further clarification.
Thank you and God bless as I await your urgent
response.
Yours Sincerely,
John Nasir.
Please for confidential and security reasons, send your response to my
confidential
email address; lyudmila1@tiscali.cz


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