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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: denison eze <denison@corriodesign.hu>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 19:47:43 +0200
Subject: I await your urgent response.


From the desk of: DR.Adamechi. D. EZe
Executive Director/Financial Controller
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC)
Falomo Office Annex
Lagos Nigeria

Dear Sir,

REQUEST FOR URGENT BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP

I am the financial controller of Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC). I got your Contact address from an associate
working with the Nigerian
Export Promotion Council. I and my colleagues are officials in
charge of offshore remittance in this Corporation (NNPC).

We are seeking your assistance to transfer of Forty Two Million
(US$42,000,000.00) to your account for further private
investment.

This amount accrued from an over-invoiced contract amount for
the construction of an Oil Refinery Sub- Stations in Nigeria in
1999. The contract was valued for one Hundred and Twenty Seven
Million United States Dollar (US$127,000,000.00), but we
manipulated the figure to read one Hundred and Sixty Nine
Million United States Dollars($169,000,000.00) The extra
$42,000,000.00 is what we want to transfer now.

This contract has been completely executed and the contractors
have been paid their contract less this $42,000,000.00. which
is in a suspense account with the Central Bank of Nigeria, the
nations apex bank.

For your assistance, we have agreed to remunerate you with 15%
because it is impossible for us to claim the amount without foreign collaboration. 5% has been mapped out for any miscellaneous expenses that may be incurred by either party during this business.

It may interest you to know that four years ago, we carried out
a similar transaction with one Mr. Patrice Miller, the President
of Craine International Trading Corporation at number 135 East
57th Street, 28th Floor,New York.10022 with Tel: 212-308-7788
and TLX number 6731689. Mr. Patrice disappeared into thin air when
he received the money. His Telephone and Telex numbers had been
reallocated to other users by the time we arrived. This explains exactly why we will make a concrete agreement between us, should you be willing to do this
deal.

All modalities to effect the payment and subsequent transfer of this
money
have been worked out. This transaction is 100% risk
free but requires 100 percent confidentiality. You can rest assured
that
your security has
been considered before you were contacted.

PLEASE REPLY TO MY CONFIDENTIAL EMAIL ADDRESS: adamechi2@sify.com
phone:234-80-3716-7533

I await your urgent response.

Best Regards,

Dr.Adamechi. D. EZe, Mni


PLEASE REPLY TO: adamechi2@sify.com




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