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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: "Williams" <williamap@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: appiawilliams1@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 21:17:38 +0100
Subject: FROM WILLIAMS

Dear sir,
I am the Senior Accountant from the Federal Ministry of Finance in Ghana.I
got your contact when I went on a convention abroad. After due consideration
with Committee members, I have been specially mandated to Arrange for a foreign
firm for a possible transfer of funds being an over invoiced sum resulting
from contract executed for my ministry in 2003.
1.Laying of Natural Gas Pipe from Tema refinery to kumasi.
2.maintainace and installations of hp 20 electric motor at Tema Refinery.
The Original value of this contract were purposely over inflated by us (Tender
Committee)with the sum of $28,000,000.00 (Twenty eight million, U.S Dollars
only).
Now that the firm has received their supposed payment accordingly and The
project commissioned, we want to transfer the over inflated sum to Foreign
account.
This however, is deal between my colleagues and me. Fortunately this
Present administration has declared all foreign contractor debts in all
Ministries From Last Financial year to the present due for payment. We have
agreed that if your company or yourself can act as the agent and beneficiary,
you will retain 30% of the total amount. We therefore seek your assistance,
all modalities have been worked out with the Federal Ministry of Finance
(FMF)and Bank of Ghana to facilitate the remittance of this sum into your
account within 12 working days of receiving the following.
1.Beneficiary's name, address, personal phone and Fax numbers.
2.The name of the Bank, address and the account number.
The above requirements will assist us on claims and detailed nature of The
worth of the contract respectively. On receipt of this information, We shall
arrange for a meeting immediately with the officials involved for the immediate
and prompt release of this fund. Final arrangements have been perfected here
for hitch free transfer of this sum into your account.Note all that we have
put in many years of meticulous service to this country , therefore , we
would not want our reputable image to be dented.
Handle this arrangement with Maturity, topmost secrecy and Urgency.
Please contact me on this my private telephone numbers +233-24-4774075 for
security purposes.

I will stop here till I hear from you
Best Regards.
WILLIAM APPIA.
Tel: +233-24-4774075



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