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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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• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • bc_eze001@yahoo.ca (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "B.C EZEH EZE" <bc_eze002@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 14:37:25 +0000
Subject: Urgent Reply

Attn. Sir
I am pleased to send my greetings to you. I know this letter will definitely
come to you as a surprise package I got your contact from a reliable fellow
and he told me your honest.

I am extending this proposal to you in my capacity as chairman of the
contract Review/Audit Committee scrutinizing all record covering executed
contract awarded by previous military government of Nigeria. My colleagues
and I have uncovered a floating amount of USD$35,500,000.00 (THRITYFIVE
MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND U.S.DOLLARS), without a clear beneficiary
owing to a deliberate act of over invoicing and inflating of contract value
by some government officials This money (USD$35.5M), has already been
approved for payment by the Nigerian Ports Authority and is secured under
Contract No:MMP/FGN/V1238/ALSCON-27 Job Completion Certificate No:
677002503242MMPS/C of 12th OCT.2003.

As top civil servants, we are not authorized to operate foreign bank account
and this is why we want to use your bank account to transfer this money
outside Nigeria. We have accepted you as our foreign partner and will now
regularize the approvals to you as the trust beneficiary of the contract
sum. As soon as we receive your acceptance, we shall inform you of the
necessary requirements from you to facilitate the transfer.

Let us use this opportunity and export the benefit of this sum. We have
resolved to give you 25% of the total sum as compensation for your
assistance, 60% is for me and my partners here in Nigeria, 15% is set aside
to cover every expenses made in the course of the transaction. As soon as I
receive your acceptance in principle, I will furnish you with the necessary
modalities for commencement.

Finally, I am relying my confidence in you, having opened up to you, if
however you are not interested, please feel free to destroy this information
as I will continue to scout for willing partner(s). For futher discussion
respond through my alternative E-mail at: bc_eze001@yahoo.ca

Your reply is urgently needed.Note that this should be confidential.

Yours faithfully,

Senator Bc Eze.

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