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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: Mr Robin Chambers <united.delegate.110@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: <robin_chambers0002@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:31:37 -0600
Subject: COMPENSATION PAYMENT
From: Mr.Robin Chambers.Firstbank / United Nations 2007. Attention:Compensation Payment.
REF/PAYMENT CODE: TRANSFER #06654 $1MILLION USD
This is to bring to your notice that I am delegated from the United Nations to Firstbank Abuja to pay 100 Nigerian 419 scam victims $1 Million each, you are listed and approved for this payments as one of the scammed victims,get back to me as soon as possible for the immediate payments of your $1 Million compensations funds.
On this faithful recomendations, I want you to know that during the last UN meetings held at Abuja,Nigeria,it was alarmed so much by the rest of the world in the meetings on the lose of funds by various foreigners to the scams artists operating in syndicates all over the world today,in other to retain the good image of the country,the president of the country(President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua) who took over the presidential villa is now paying 100 victims of this operators $1 Million USD each, the payments are to be paid by Firstbank Abuja, Nigeria,corressponding paying bank under funding assistance by the Central Bank of Nigeria( C.B.N.).
According to the number of applicants at hand,84 beneficiaries has been paid ,half of the victims are from the United States,we still have more 16 left to be paid the compensations of $1 Million each.Your particulars was mentioned by one of the syndicates who was arrested in Lagos Nigeria as one of thier victims of the operations,you are hereby warned not to communicate or duplicate this message to any body for any reason what so ever,the US secret service is already on trace of the criminals.
For more vital information,please visit:http://home.rica.net/alphae/419coal/news1jul.htm
You can receive your compensations payments via any of the both options you choose, DRAFT PAYMENT, WIRE TRANSFER or by a DIPLOMATIC HOME CASH DELIVERY, I shall feed you with further modalities as soon as I hear from you.
Yours faithfully,Mr.Robin ChambersReply via this e-mail address: robin_chambers0002@yahoo.fr
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