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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: williams agwu <williams_agwu_111@yahoo.ca>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:46:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Urgent and Trust me


Attn:VICTIMNAME

How are you and your family?

First and foremost i have noted all you've said in your mail, friend you can trust and count by me, thank for your Prompt response and interest you have shown to assist us receive this over invoice contract fund worth US$20,5Million U.S Dollars intoyour bank account.

Well, it is my duty to inform you that all the necessary arrangement for smooth transfer of this overinvoice fund have been put in place before you were contacted, only to present you and your company as one of the foreign companies who executed contract with our ministry, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to enable us use the opportunity to arranged for the transfer of the fund to your bank account for our own use. Since the entire Ministry and our Government, have given us the opportunity to pay off this debt owned to our foreign contractors.

All we need to do now is to proceed to the Nigeria Corporate Affairs Commission to register your company’s name as one of the FOREIGN COMPANIES that will be paid.

you are required to forward the bellow stated information such as

(1) YOUR COMPANY'S NAME AND ADDRESS
(2) YOUR BANK ACCOUNT COORDINATES
(3) YOUR DIRECT TELEPHONES/FAX NUMBER

Have it in mind that as soon as this fund is finally transferred to your bank account I and my partner will fly to your country for sharing of the fund with you and also look for a profitable business where we can invest some of our share there with your assistant
.
Please kindly go through this mail and inform us your readiness by sending the above stated information for immediate commencement be rest assured that once we succeeded with any of the documents we will send the copy to you for your perusal.

Hoping for your urgent response and thanks for your
cooperation.

Regards

willams agwu


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