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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: johnuwa2004@itloox.com
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 5:48:11
Subject: FROM JOHN UWA


From mr john uwa

Lagos state University

Faculty of accounting

p.o box 471 Oshodi

Lagos State

Nigeria.

# +234-80-33087058

E-mail johnuwa2001@jumpy.it



Dear Friend,



Greetings to you, I come to you with a sincere heart

believing in AlmightyGod that you will consider my

plight and come to help me. My name is john uwa,

and my father's name is Mr.peter uwa. presently i

am a university student with lagos state university

year three,i am in faculty of accounting.



He was the assistant director of pipeline product

marketing department of the Nigerian National

Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He just died four months

ago by a ghastly motor accident. At the point of his

death in the hospital, he disclosed to me

that he deposited the sum of (U.S$11.3 MILLION

DOLLARS) in a security and finance company in Europe

and also told me where he kept the covering

documents.





So as I was contemplating on how to secure this fund,

I now seek for the consent of my reverend father who

advised me to contact an honest foreigner that will

receive this fund in his or her Bank account because

my fathers code conduct of service did not permit us

to operate a foreign account.So I now seek for

Nigerian chamber of commerce world directory where I

got your contact and decided to contact you.



Please, if you can help me to receive this money into

your Bank account, you will take 25% out of the total

fund as soon as you receive the money in your account,

then you will keep the rest for me in your Bank

account for my investment in your country.



Note that after the claim you will pepeare documents

to invite me to your country as student to complete my

study



Thanks expecting to hear from you, to enable us

discuss further. You cansend me your direct telephone

and fax number for easy communication, you can reply

to my private email address johnuwa2001@jumpy.it



Thanks for your understanding.



Regards

john uwa

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