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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: maxwell_akiga@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:44:47 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PLEASE=2C=20I=20NEED=20YOUR=20HELP=2E?=
FROM: MR.MAXWELL AKIGA.
PLOT 7, DIDEOLU COURT,
IKEJA, LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Attn Please,
I am Maxwell Akiga, a veteran of the Justice Development & Peace Commission
(JDPC). I was an aide to the late Head of State of Nigeria, Sani Abacha.
During the reign of Sani Abacha, I was in charge of all Diamond operations
coming from Angola, Sierra Leone and I managed the company called Tropical
Rubbers Nigeria Ltd. in Sapele, Delta State. Sani Abacha gave patronage
to the rebels controlling parts of these countries as tons of uncut diamond
were shipped to him, and he in turn through me, sold these diamonds to foreigners.
Literally speaking he gave cover to the rebel leaders. This operation was
code named: Conflict Diamond. I cordinated the entire Diamond trade in the
sub-region and this ran into hundreds of million of dollars. While carrying
out this operation I was able to divert the sum of US$14.3m for my personal
benefit,and this is contained in a trunk boxes which is now deposited as
artifacts belonging to a foreigner, with a Security Company that has it's
operational base in Europe,
I am looking for an assistance on who can go to Europe to stand as the foreigner,
and as such the beneficiary of the consignment so that you will assist in
moving the money to safety. I hope you will keep this confidential. All
you need do is to make necessary arrangement and come down to the European
office of the Security Company, see the money and then claim it out. I will
make available the documents with which the metal trunk box was deposited
at the security company to support the claim.
Already I have the consent of a bank director in Europe who has agreed to
help us move the money out through his bank. I am offering you 35% of the
money for assisting me in this project and securing the money, while we
will use 5% to seetle all expenses that we will incur.
Please, I am highly incapacitated right now, that is why I am contacting
you. Because of my closeness to the late Gen.Sani Abacha, upon his death
in 1998, I was arrested and detained alongside his son, Mohammed and other
well known aides. I was only released six months ago. Before now, all our
properties have been confiscated by the present government, while all our
bank accounts both locally here and in foreign lands have all been frozen
by the present government. So right now, I have no other hope of realising
and establishing myself except through this money which I deposited with
the security company in Europe. To make things worse, I cannot legally travel
out, as my international passport is seized by the government. But if you
can help me to secure this money, I will then escape out of here with my
family, since I will then be sure of the money to take care of my family.
So please, do not delay and contact me immediately throgh this email or
my alternative email address max_akiga@tiscali.fi.
Thanks for your anticipated understanding and cooperation.
Best regards,
Maxwell Akiga.
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