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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: Nuhu Gambari <ngambari@alvilag.hu>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:44:46 +0200
Subject: Urgent & highly confidential
BARRISTER NUHU GAMBARI
FAME & FORTUNE CHAMBERS
21 UNITY ROAD,
IKEJA,LAGOS - NIGERIA
TEL: 234-806-0287918
EMAIL (PRIVATE): nuhu_gambari@walla.com
Greetings to you,
With warm heart I offer my friendship, and greetings, and hopes that
this mail meets you in good time. I got your contact through my personal
research in the internet, and out of desperation decided to contact you
immediately. I reposed great confidence in you hence my resolve to send
you this mail and I hope that you will treat it as highly confidential.
After careful consideration with my client, (Hajia Mariam Abacha) I
resolved to contact you for your most needed assistance in this manner. I
duly apologize for infringing on your privacy, if this contact is not
acceptable to you, as I make this proposal to you as a person of
integrity.
First and foremost I wish to introduce myself properly to you. My name
is Barrister Nuhu Gambari, Family Attorney to Hajia Mariam Abacha,
wife of late General Sani Abacha, The former Head of State of Federal
Republic of Nigeria who died in June 8, 1998 under questionable
circumstances.
Following the sudden death of my client's husband, my client was thrown
into a state of utter confusion, frustration and hopelessness by the
present civilian administration. Infact my client has been subjected to
physical and psychological torture by the security agents in Nigeria. My
client has lost confidence in everybody in Nigeria as a result of what
she is going through now.
You must have heard over the media and the internet on the recovery of
various huge sums of money deposited by my client's late husband in
different security firms and banks abroad. Some companies and banks have
willingly given up the deposit secrets and disclosed my client's late
husband's money confidentially lodged with them for fear of prosecution
and other unknowns.
In fact the total sum discovered and recovered so far is in the tune of
$7 billion dollars and the authorities in charge of this quest have not
relented in their efforts to impoverish my client and her family for
life.
My client told me in strict confidence recently that her late husband
deposited the sum of $50 million dollars with a commercial bank in
Accra-Ghana, West Africa. She has shown me all the deposit documents and the
funds are still there.
My purpose of contacting you is for you to assist my client to claim
this $50 million from the commercial bank in Accra-Ghana and keep it in
our custody after which we shall discuss on the best investment platform
to place it. My client is seriously considering settling down abroad in
a friendly atmosphere like yours as soon as you secure this fund into
your bank account for her so that she can start a new life again.
If you are trustworthy and willing to assist my client, please get back
to me ASAP through my private email address or my private telephone
number so that I can tell you what to do to enable the bank release
the $50 million to you on behalf of my client.
I await your urgent and positive response.
Best wishes.
Sincerely.
Barrister Nuhu Gambari
TEL: 234-806-0287918
EMAIL (PRIVATE): nuhu_gambari@walla.com
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