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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: johnbrown_01@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 03:14:44 -0800
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?YOUR=20ASSISTANCE=20NEEDED?=

CHIEF HON JOHN BROWN L.L.B. L.L.M B.L
LEGAL PRACTITIONER AND CONSULTANAT
MEMBER CONSTITUTION DRAFTING COMITTEE 1995
ADDRESS:382 OLD OJO RD SATTELITE TOWN LAGOS

Dear Sir,

I am Barr. John Brown (SAN) personal attorney to Engr. Jim Bond, a national
of your country, who used to work with Eleme Construction & Development
Company here in Nigeria herein after shall be referred to as my client.


My client was involved in the explosion in Lagos,Nigeria, on January27,
2002 which, claim many lives and property. Unfortunately, my client lost
his live in that disaster that needed not to have happened.Since then I
have made several enquiries to your embassy to locate any of my clients
extended relatives this has also proved unsuccessful. After these several
unsuccessful attempts, I decided to track his last name over the Internet,
to locate any member of his family hence Icontacted you.

My purpose of contacting you is to assist in repatriating the money and
property left behind by my client prior to his death before they get confiscated
or declared unserviceable by the company where this huge deposits were lodged
in, where the deceased had an account valued at about US$18 Million dollars.
The company had issued me a notice to provide the next of kin or have the
account confiscated within the next 14 official working days.

Since I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over one year
now I seek your consent as the next of kin of the deceased since you have
the same last name/surname so that the proceeds of this account valued at
US$18 million dollars can be paid to you. I have all the necessary official
and legal documents that can be used to back up your claim. All I require
is your honest co-operation to enable me as the legal attorney to the deceased
in seeing that you receive your inheritance fund. I guarantee that this
will be executed legitimately to protect you from any breach of the law.


See the website of the bomb explosion below:

http://www.disasterrelief.org/Disasters/020130Lagos3/

Please get in touch with me by my email address above
to enable us discuss further.

Best regards,

Barr. John Brown (SAN)



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