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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: "fpdnnpc @easymail.hu" <info@fpdnnpc.com>
Reply-To: fpdnnpc@easymail.hu
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:55:56 +0000
Subject: Your Consent is Required...........

Dear Friend,

I am Ephraim Alonge, the Director of finance in the foreign payment
department of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. I am writing to
intimate you with a business which needs a foreign Company's or personal
assistance to execute.

In my department, we have Thirty-Eight Million,Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars over invoice bill after auditing. This money arose from deliberate
over-invoiced bill which we added during last, Military regime to a foreign
Company. The (original contact value has been paid after concluding the
contact, as first instalment payment.

Now, the government in power has directed that all contracts duely completed
during and after the last regime be paid off before December 2005. It is
this remaining over-value sum as above, that I and other official in the
various Department of the ministry have now decided to transfer into your
account for safety, and subsequently disburse in the percentage as
follows:Twenty-five Percent for you,Sixty Percent for us the partners in
Nigeria and Ten Percent for taxation and any expenses that might be incured
during the course of this transaction. Moreso, this trasaction will only
take us
fourteen working days. The request for a foreign account is occasioned by
the fact, that civil servant in nigeria are by law precluded from operating
off-shore accounts. If you are interested in this joint business you are
required to send an account number, where the money will be remitted.The
bank address, name, location, fax and telephone number for easy
communication.
Note that these information should be sent through email for security
purposes.

1. After the final transaction, three officials will be coming to your
country to take care of our own fund.

2. Note you are expected to maintain confidentiality of the project that we
have, as we have putting in many years of meticulous services to the
government with maturity, top most secrecy and urgency. There is no risk
whatsoever,while we assure you of maximum security, you must endeavour to
keep this business confidential and secret till the end.

I will appreciate if you kindly respond through this alternative E-mail
address: fpdnnpc1@easymail.hu

Thank you very much for your anticipated co-operation.

Yours sincerely,

EPHRAIM ALONGE.
fpdnnpc1@easymail.hu

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