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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: george.ad@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 01:46:36 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?nddc=20urgent=20attention?=

GEORGE ADAMS
Secretary to the Niger Delta Development Commission,Old Secretariat Complex,
Victorial-Island, Lagos.

Email:george.ad@zipmail.com.br

Dear Sir/Madam,

I know this email will reach you as a surprise, but need not to worry as
we
are using the only secured and confidential medium available to seek for

foreign assistance/partnership in a business transaction which is of mutual

benefit.I am a highly placed official of Government in
Nigeria and also afounding member of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).
My committee - The Niger Delta Development Commission(NDDC)-which is in

charge of managing and supervising the disbursement of oil sales revenues
for
the Nigerian government which covers payment to foreign and local contractors

that have executed contracts for our country.

The revenue under our control runs into several hundred of millions of
dollars monthly.Myself and other colleagues in the NDDC are currently in
need
of a foreign partner with whose bankaccount we shall transfer the sum of

Eighteen Million Five Hundred Thosand United States Dollars($18.5m).

This fund was accrued from various over invoicing of foreign
contractors'payments made over the years. The Total fund is presently waiting

in the Government Account named CBN/FGN INDEPENDENT REVENUE account at the

Central Bank of Nigeria.However, by virtue of our position as civil servants

and members of the NDDC, we cannot acquire this funds in our name. This
is
because as top civil servants, we are not allowed by law of the land to
own
or operate bank accounts outside our country for now.

I have been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues, to look for
an
overseas partner in whose account we would
transfer the fund,hence the reason for this mail.We shall be Transferring
the
money to your account with your company as the beneficiary, under the guise

that you are being paid for a contract which you/your company executed for

our country through the NDDC and any other Federal Ministry that we decide
to
use for this purpose.

For your support and partnership, please reply me to negotiate your fees
or
the percentage you wish to be paid when the funds arrive your bank account.

You must however note that this transaction, with regards to
our disposition to continue with you, is subject to these terms.
Firstly,our conviction of your transparency.Secondly, that you treat
this transaction with utmost secrecy and confidentiality.

Finally and above all, that you will provide an account over which you have

absolute control. The transaction, although discrete, is legitimat and there

is no risk or legal lliability either to ourselves or yourself now or in
the
future as we have put in place the neccesary machinery that will ensure
a
hitch free transfer into your account
upon acceptance.

The transfer will be effected to your account within ten to fourteen (10-14)

working days from the date we reach an agreement. You should furnish me
with
your contact telephone and fax numbers in your first response.

I am looking forward to doing business with you and do solicit your
confidentiality in this transaction, Please mail your response to me
through my confidential email address;( george.ad@zipmail.com.br)for me
to update
you on our plans as to how we intend to actualize
this transaction.

Yours Sincerely,
GEORGE ADAMS
(george.ad@zipmail.com.br)



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