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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: adesam@tiscali.it
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:50:04 -0800
Subject: VERY IMPORTANT

From: Dr Sam Adeola
H.O.D. Clinical Pharmacology,
University of Lagos,
Lagos State,
Nigeria.

I am Dr.Sam Adeola, the Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacology and
Director of research, at the University of Lagos,Lagos State Nigeria.
I write to solicit your assistance in a project of mutual benefits. We got
your contact over the Internet.

In February 1999, a research grant (US$12.5Million) was given to my department
with I leading a team of other clinical pharmacologists, by the Pharmaceutical
Society of Nigeria, to conduct a research on the
effect of a Sickle Cell Disease in Nigeria.

The research has since been concluded (specifically in August 2002).
Of the total amount given to us for the research purposes we only expended
US$4.2Million leaving a balance of US$8.3 Million.

We are contacting you with a view to transferring this balance out for our
own use. We have put in over 25 years of our lives into working for the
government and as academics we do NOT have anything to show for it,
hence this opportunity we see as a God-Sent one. We sincerely hope that
you will be of assistance to us.

I implore you to treat this mail as confidentially as possible as we are
still active academicians, though retiring in the first quarter of next
year. If you are not in a position to assist us, do not respond to this
mail and we apologize for taking your time.
Upon receipt of your acceptance to assist us in this,we will negotiate on
what should be your take from this ammount for helping us.

We await your response.

Sincrely yours.

Dr.Sam Adeola.






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