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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: reb_egobia01@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 08:59:07 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONTACT=20ME=20ASAP=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F=3F?=

DEAR FRIEND,



PLEASE VIEW THE WEBSITE FOR MORE ENQUIRE ON THIS INCIDENCE

{www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html}

I am an accoutant with CITIZEN INTERNTIONAL BANK ,My
name is MRS REBECCA EGOBIA a Banker. I am the Account
officer to ENGINEER ( Barton) a national of your country,
who used to work with Chevron Oil Producing Company in Nigeria.

Here in after shall be referred to as my client.On the 25th of December
2003,my client,on the single reason of visiting together with . His wife
and children to their{COUNTRY} and their two daughter were involved in a
Plane crash,on their way home for the holidays and were among the 111 people
confirmed dead.since then I have made several inquiries to your embassy
here to locate any of my client's extended relatives, this has also proved
unsuccessful.

After these several unsuccessful attempts, I decided to
trace his last name over, to locate any member
of his family hence I contacted you. I have contacted you
to assist in repatriating the money and property left
behind by my client before they get confiscated or declared
unserviceable by the bank where these huge deposits
were lodged, particularly the CITIZEN INTERNTIONAL
BANK.Where the deceased had an account Valued at about ($35
million u s dollars)has issued me a notice to provide the
next of kin. Or have the account confiscated within the
next ten official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives
for over some year now, I seek your consent to present you
as the next of kin of the deceased so that the proceeds of
this account valued at($35 million US Dollars)can be paid
to you and then you and me Can share the money.50% to me
and 40% to you. While 10%for unforeseen bottle necks we
might incur in this transaction an attorney will be
contacted to help us revalidated and notarize all the
necessary legal documents that can be used to back up any
claim we may make.

All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us see
this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed
under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you. From
any breach of the law.You can contact me on my private
email address:[rebeccaegobia20052005@yahoo.co.uk] on this issue.

Best Regards

MRS REBECCA EGOBIA

A BANKER.



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