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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: udemezue@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 07:14:17 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?REQUEST=20FOR=20MUTUAL=20BUSINESS=20RELATIONSHIP?=

THE DESK OF Dr UDEMEZUEJOEL .
NIGERIA NATIONAL PETROLEUM
COROPERATION (NNPC)
FALOMO OFFICE COMPLEX
IKOY LAGOS NIGERIA.

Dear Friend,


REQUEST FOR MUTUAL BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

Please permit me to introduce myself. I am Dr Chioma Joel the financial
director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). It is true
we have not met before but I got your contact address through a reliable
source who assured me of your honest and trust orthiness which was why I
decided to contact you with a business proposal that will be mutual benefit
to all of us. In 2002.
My corporation (NNPC) awarded a contract for the construction of oil storage
tanks at three of Nigerian refinneries at Port-Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna.
The value of this contract was US$75.5Million .

However, myself and some very top officials at the NNPC used our position
to inflate this contract to US$95.5 Million without the knowledge of the
government. This contract was approved and the original contractor has successfully
executed the contract and has received his due contract sum of US$75.5Million
under contract number NNPC/PED/0X04/98, leaving out the over inflated surplus
of US$20 Million which is now ready to be transferred into any foreign account
we presented for this purpose.

Sir, you may wonder why we could not open a foreign account ourselves. It
is forbidden for government officials to open and operate offshore account.
This is why we needed your urgent assistance to provide us with a good company
or private account where the fund will be remitted into before we share
it in a ratio that will be acceptable to all of us.Furthermore, you shall
assist us to invest part of our share for a period of 2 years into a very
profitable business which will be reviewed periodicially untill we retire
in 5years time.

If you are willing to assist us in this business venture, kindly contact
us through the above E-mail address and include your direct Telephone and
Fax numbers so that we can provide you with additional informations. We
assure you of 100% risk free in this transaction as we have done our home
work very well to ensure a hitch free remittance of this fund into your
account.

We thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation while we look forward
to your prompt response to this letter.

Yours faithfully,
Dr Udemezue Joel
Financial Director
NNPC
234-834-049-934



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