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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: dr_nzam@terra.com.mx
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 14:55:35 +0200
Subject: very urgent

BILL AND EXCHANGE OF
THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF
CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD,
LAGOS.NIGERIA.
email address at:dr_nzamo@latinmail.com
Date 27/4/2005.

Dear ,
I am writing to you, following the impressive information about you through
the Web,and I believe in your capability and reliability to champion this
opportunity.I am the Operations Officer, BILL AND EXCHANGE of THE FOREIGN
REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT OF CITIZENS INTERNATIONAL BANK LTD,LAGOS.NIGERIA.In
my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of 17.5 million US dollars
Seventen million five hundrend US dollars) in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in 0ctomber,1998
in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of Kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
some body applies for it as next of Kin or relative to the deceased as indicated
in our banking and financial policies but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin or relation died with him in the accident leaving nobody
behind to claim the money. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and
other officials in my department now decided to make this business proposal
to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and we dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
bills.
The Banking law and guide line here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Six and half years, the money will be transferred into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for a foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family. We agreed
that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect of
your assistance in this business, and 70 % would be for me and two of my
staff in the business.
Thereafter,I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enhance the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first to the Bank
as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your private, telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where the
money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by
fax or e-mail the text of the application.I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.You
should contact me on MY E-MAIL, as soon as you receive this letter. I decided
to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of the world
where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we
are civil servants.
Note that we can conclude this operation within ten banking days.Please
keep this very confidential for obvious security reasons. Contact me for
more information, all confirmable before you apply if you want. Trusting
to hear from you shortly for a detailed information which are confirmable
before you can make up your mind to apply.If however,you are not interested,do
let me know by return mail too as I will not contact anybody else until
I hear
from you.Reach me immediately through my private email
address at:dr_nzamo@latinmail.com

May God be with you.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Ben Nzamo


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