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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: "Dr. Tade Chris (PhD)" <tadec@walla.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: tadechris@walla.com
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 09:55:03 +0100
Subject: Business offer

Dr. Tade Chris (Phd)
18 COWRIE HOUSE
LAGOS, NIGERIA.
EMAIL: tadechris@walla.com

First, l must solicit your strictest confidentiality in
thistransaction.

We are top officials of the Federal Government Tender Board
of the Department of Petroleum Resourses (DPR) who are interested in an
immediate business proposal that involves some funds which we will like
to invest under your custody.

The sources of the funds is from the just awarded Oil licenses to
companies for the prostecting of the deep offshore oil block recently
aloocated
and approved by the Federal Government. In the course of doing this, we
have realised some funds as direct accruebale benefits from our
interests in some of the companies. However, by virtue of our position as
civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our
names.

I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues
of the panel to look for an overseas partner into whose account we would
transfer the sum totally US$15,320,000.00 (Fifteen Million,
Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand U.S. Dollars). Hence my writing you.

We intend to effect the transfer within 12 banking days from the date
of receipt of the following information via my confidential email, your
Bankers name, Company's name and address, Account number and a confidential
telephone and fax number.

The above information will enable us write letters of claims and job
description respectively. This way, we will use your company's name to
apply for the payment and effect the transfer of the said total funds
to your company.

I hope you will look favourably on this proposal as I solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction.

I urgently await your response via my private email address:
tadechris@walla.com and hope that you will look favourably on my
proposition.

Regards,
Dr. Tade Chris (Phd)

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