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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: "Louis Martin" <matinlouis@msn.com>
Reply-To: kennna20@yahoo.com
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:17:57 +0000
Subject: mutual Benefit.
Dear friend,
How are you today even as I hope that this mail finds you in good health? I
am quite sure that this short memo/mail would certainly surprise/embarrass
you since we have not had any previous correspondence with each other
before. However, I got your contact through the world wide web (internet)
when I was on a desperate search for someone who could handle a transaction
for our mutual benefit.
My names and contact e-mail address are as stated above. I am an accountant
with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC. One of our
contractors (Engr. John Owen) lost his life shortly after servicing a
project for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) at the Kaduna
Refinery. The contractor left the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria
for his residential home to produce certain documents required of him for
the clearing of his funds, which was due for payment. Unfortunately he could
not come back for the clearance, having met his sudden death on that trip.
Engr. John Owen and his entire family (his wife and three kids) lost their
life in the fire that gulped their residential home during an inter-tribal
communal clash between two rebels/militants group in Port Harcourt
(Rivers-State). The rebels/militants who stormed the neighborhoods by
midnight, left traces of woe, pain, and anguish, by killing of innocent
souls through sporadic gunshots, explosion of dynamites and setting many
residential homes ablaze. It is quite unfortunate that the contractor and
his entire family did not live to enjoy the fruit of their labor, having
lost their lives to that deadly catastrophe. The amount in question is
US$35,000,000.00 (Thirty-Five Million United States Dollars Only).
Presently, this has accrued an interest up to the tone of US$2,000,000.00.
Having made several fruitless attempts to locate any of his extended family
relatives through their embassy (since his wife and kids who should have
been the beneficiary of the funds were not spared in that deadly
catastrophe), I have now perfected means of successfully claiming this
funds. However, I can only succeed on this if I could present a foreigner
whom I must present to the Contract Payment office as the only surviving
relation of late Engineer John Owen. I have to execute this deal because the
government would confiscate this funds if it is not claimed within the next
six months. It does not make any business sense allowing this funds to be
confiscated or secretly siphoned by Contract Payment officials. It is
unreasonable to allow opportunity to slip through me while many people are
out there suffering various degrees of untold hardship. I here-by seek your
cooperation to have you stand as an extended relative (next-of-kin) to the
late contractor so that the fund will be paid to you. As a matter of
business, I would want us to claim this money and donate a substantial part
of it to Charity, while the rest will be equally shared between the both of
us. I know how best to achieve this goal without leaving any traces, and I
guarantee that this transaction is 100% risk free because I have all the
contract documents needed to back up this claim. These document shall be
forwarded to you upon your full acceptance to execute this deal with me.
Upon your response I will also show you other proves that confirms the
legitimacy of this transaction and these proves will explain my reasons for
assuring you that the deal is RISK FREE. This deal can be concluded within
5 banking days and it is an opportunity of a life’s time which no one can
afford to loose.
Thanks as I wait in anticipation for your positive response through my above
email. But please accept my sincere apology if this proposal should offend
you as a result of your moral or religious status. I simply believe that
this funds should be retrieved and used in helping out many who are
languishing in poverty and hunger.
Regards
Martin Adams
Atlernative email :(martinadams20@yahoo.es )
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