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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: "ray umar" <ray_umar_a38@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ray_umar_2010@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:43:29 +0000
Subject: WACHOVIA BANK PLC

Attn:





I work as the Head of Fund Manager representing
WACHOVIA BANK PLC in United state but based in
here in Nigeria Africa .I have an Investor under
my portfolio with a closing balance of $20 millionas
his first initial deposit. This Investor died two
years ago leaving no WILL or AUTHORIZATION for
re-transfer of his Investment and its proceeds
to the INHERITOR and because of the laws here
in Nigeria we have been able to move the fund to
the only American bank {GLOBAL FINANCE INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC}
here in Nigeria Africa


I have personally carried out an Investigation on
the subject matter that takes me 9 months to
finalize and was made to understand that the Family
or Relatives of the Investor knows nothing about his
Investment and none have any records of all his
deposits and investment with us leaving an avenue
for claiming of the said funds with its accrued
interest on presentation of a trustworthy person
that can stand as the INHERITOR to the deceased.





If you are interested, I can present you as the
INHERITOR with all the relivant informations and
proper documentation that will qualify you to have
the funds claimed and on doing this, our
establishment will not question the release of the
funds to you as I will make sure that we comply with
the laid down rules and laws of claiming the
Investment of a deceased Investor in our
Establishment. Our sharing ratio will be
60:40.Please contact me for more details breakdown
if interested by sending me these informations bellow:



{1}your full name
{2}home and office address
{3}full phone and fax number
{4}marital status
{5}age
{5}nationality



Looking forward to hearing from
you shortly .


Sincerely.
Mr.Ray Umar.

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