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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: STANDARD TRUST BANK NIG PLC <>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:54:43 -0600
Subject: get back to me

Organization: STANDARD TRUST BANK NIG PLC
Reply-To: oyebanjibadmus01@yahoo.com
Message-ID: <570e17041b697ab24f4dc24d712e32cd@mail.30gigs.com>
X-Sender: oyebanjibadmus@30gigs.com
User-Agent: 30gigs.com Webmail
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


FROM THE DESK OF:MR.OYEBANJI BADMUS
GENERAL AUDITOR OF STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC
LAGOS NIGERIA WEST AFRICA.
PRIVATE TELEPHONE:
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL JOINT VENTURE PARTNERSHIP
INTRODUCTION:

My Dear Friend,

I am Mr.OYEBANJI BADMUS the auditor general of STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC in Nigeria.I got your contact from your country
business guide as a reliable person.I want to transfer
to overseas ($21,000.000.00 USD)from STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC in
Lagos Nigeria west Africa, I want to ask you to
quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank
account or to set up a new Bank a/c immediately to
receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve to
receive this money, as long as you will remain honest
to me till the end of this important business trusting
in you and believing in God that you will never let me
down either now or in future.

During the course of my auditing I discovered a
floating fund in an account opened in this bank in
1990 and since then till 2005 nobody has operated on
this account again, after going through some old files
in the records I discovered that the owner of the
account died without a [heir]hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently
it will be forfeited for nothing.The owner of this
account is Mr.A.C Young,a foreigner, and an industrialist,he died, since 1993 and no other person knows about this account or any thing concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me aswell that mr A.C.Young, until his death he was a director of SHELL BP. With account number #5005874CB1000.I have kept the information secret within myself to enable me look for any foreign partner of my choice who will assist me receive this funds.
However, every legal steps will be put in place to
obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of this
money to your account with appropriate clearance from
the relevant ministries and foreign exchange departments.
We will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together
and to build amount of confidence and trust between us.
I am revealing this to you with believe in God that
you will never let me down in this business. Your
urgent reply will be highly appreciated to enable me
inform you of the next step to take urgently because
this transaction will be actualize within 14 working
days.
All I need is your full co-operation to make this work
fine. because, the STANDARD TRUST BANK PLC management is ready
to,approve this payment to any foreigner who has
correct information of this account, which I will give
to you,upon your positive response and once I am
convinced that you are willing and ready to handle
this deal.

With my influence in this bank we can transfer this
money to any foreign reliable account which you can
provide with assurance that this money will be intact
pending my physical arrival in your country for
sharing.I will be monitoring the whole situations here
in the bank until you confirm this funds in your
account. Then i will destroy all documents of transaction
immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place.I
will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I
hear from you that you are ready to act and receive
this funds in your account. At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 40% of the total
amount,55% will be for me, while 5% will be for
expenses incurred during the process of transferring.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Thanks Yours faithfully,


Best regards,
Mr.OYEBANJI BADMUS
N.B.CONTACT ME VIA MY PERSONAL EMAIL(oyebanjibadmus01@yahoo.com).

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