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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: ben_talyor@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:51:08 -0700
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT=20PLEASE=2E?=

FROM DR.BEN .A.TALYOR.
DIRECTOR INCHARGE OF
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT,
FIRST BNAK ING.PLC


Dear Sir,
Is my Pleasure writing to you at this moment of the day, I am
DR.BEN TALYOR., the director incharge of auditing and accounting Unit of

FIRST Bank Nieria Plc. I and my colleagues deem
it fit
to contact you regarding to a transaction that will favour both of us
at the
end, and i got your contact in my search for a reputable and reliable
person
to help me claim the fund in question.
We discovered the sum of eight million one hundred thousand United
States
Dollars (USD8.1M) belonging to a deceased customer of this bank. The
fund
has been lying in a suspence account without anybody coming to put
claim
over the money since the account owner late Mr.Jeff Bedford from
usa,
who was involved in the December 25th Benin plane crash. the
air
crash website=
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
The said fund is now ready for transfer to a foriegn account whose
owner
will be portrayed as the beneficiary and next of kin to the deceased
customer of the bank.
The foriegn account owner will impost himself as the next of kin to the

deceased and respond positively like a true next of kin who wishes to
speed
up the release and transfer of his inherited fund. If the over due fund

if
not claimed by the end of next quarter, the government of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria will take over the ownership of the fund in line with

the
Federal Edict Act of 1979. We do not want the government to take over
the
ownership of this money, that is why I contacted you for us to do the
deal
together, so that we will portray you as the bonafide next of kin to
the
deceased whose name is Mr. Jeff Bedford.
If you accept to carry out this project with us, we will offer you 30%
of
the total sum, while I and my colleagues involved will take 70% of the
total
sum. Upon your acceptance to do this deal with us, we will jointly
effect
the transfer within eight working days.
Be rest assured that, this transaction carries no risk and no extra
responssibilities on your part, except the above mentioned roles and
normally you will be required to maintain absolute information and
absolute
secrecy throughout the duration of this transaction, because discussing

it
with a third party might jeopardise the entire transaction.
I am looking forward to receiving your interesting response on this
project
as this will greatly enrich the both of us.

Best Regards,
DR.BEN .A.TALYOR..




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