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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: (sent from abused email account)
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:34:00 +0100
Subject: PRIVATE BUSINESS!


From Mr. Steve Ubani

Please accept my sincere apologies if my proposal amounts to invasion of
your privacy or does not meet your business or personal ethics. my name is
Steve Ubani I work in account department of a bank .One Ms.Arvelo Doryce, an
American set up two investment accounts with our bank (a cash-on-call
account and a fixed deposit account) both worth USD$6,200,000,00.At an
Extra Ordinary General meeting recently held by Board of Directors of my
Bank,Ms. Doryces investments were a major agenda discussed because for
nearly a decade after setting up the accounts,she had not shown up either to
have the investments retired or to have them rolled over .

It was resolved at that meeting that an urgent steps be taken to locate any
of her relatives,to avoid moving her funds to escrow account as unclaimed
funds. I decided to contact you with an offer in which I will present your
data to the Bank's management as the relative of Ms.Arvelo Doryce to enable
the bank release/transfer the funds to you through a plan which I have
perfected.The plan will succeed on a major loophole in the documentation of
the investments at inception which I will exploit in order to have the funds
transferred to any bank account of your choice abroad.

However,if you are not interested in my offer,please do not disclose or
discuss this to and with any one to avoid lapses in my plans.Upon receipt of
the funds,it is my intention to form a business partnership with you if you
welcome that,if not we will split the funds on a ratio to be mutually
negotiated and agreed upon by both of us.I await your firm and urgent
expression of interest with your personal details to enable us proceed
immediately.

Regards,
Steve Ubani

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