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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: "Mohammed Abacha" <m_abacha02@msn.com>
Reply-To: mohammed_abacha@surimail.com
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:28:20 +0000
Subject: Attn: Urgent & Confidential
From:Mohammed Abacha
plot 6 shagari cresent, G.R.A, Kano,
Dear Sir,
It is true that we have not communicated or met before this
message. I,therefore apologize for any embarrasment this message
might cause you.
I am Mr. Mohammed Abacha, the first son of late Gen. Sani Abacha,
the former Nigeria Military Head of State, who died on the 8th of July,
1998.I believed that the problems between my family and the Federal
Government of Nigeria, is not a hiding issue to the international
press.Base on this wild publicised matter, I therefore believed that my
family can be easily identified, so feel free while dealing with us.
Shortly after the death of my father, the new government in power
detained me and some of my father's aid's, for mis-approprition of
government funds. My dear, since 1999, I have been in detaintion up
till June, 2004,which I was released with conditions that I will not
travel out of the country etc. All these while I was in detaintion,
they have been on investigation,looking for properties
belonging to my family and banks where my father deposited money.
Now their investigation is over and they have confiscated big account
of my father and seized most of our properties.
Based on these trends of treatment by my government, I hope you would
embibe my reason of this imprompt contact with you. I have a personal
deposit of U.S.S$9.3M,(Nine Million, Three Hundred Thousand U.S
Dollars) in a financial firm here in Nigeria, that the government have not
discoverred,I want to qiuckly reprofile the deposite to your name and order
thebbank to transfer the money to your accounts in your country.
I have put solid arrangement in place at the finance firm through my
personallawyer.We've been advised to solicit the consent of any foreign
partner to come from any person my family have had no previous dealings with
to "agreed on"for the claim/receive of the money.
Finally, your benefit is subject to negotiation on what would be your
right/entitlement after the transaction is completed.You should not
hesitate to contact me if you are desired to help.
Note,due to the surveillance placed on me by the government,
all contact information herein is provided strictly for this
transactionin other to avert hacking of email letters or burging of
telephone conversations.
Your help would matter alot to me.
Regards,
Mr. Mohammed Abacha
For more information about my family sitaution, please kindly go
through these websites:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/business/3244092.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3244092.stm
http://www.odiousdebts.org/odiousdebts/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=974
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