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This is just one type of the thousands of scam e-mail variants sent out each day by 419 scammers. If you've received an e-mail even remotely similar to the scam published here or if you have arrived at this page via an internet search resulting from an e-mail that you received, YOU HAVE RECEIVED A SCAM E-MAIL!

DR. PAUL PHILLIP EZENWATA

This is an internet scam! DON'T send these scammers money for any reason. [ BEGIN SCAM E-MAIL ]   From:     Dr.Paul Phillip Ezenwata <phllp23d@aol.com> Reply-To:     paulphillip23@gmail.com Subject:     PPRIVATE AND URGENT Date:     01/17/2010 07:30:10 PM (Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:30:10 +0200) PPRIVATE AND URGENT. Dr.Paul Phillip Ezenwata 234 Victoria Street, Victoria Island, Lagos State Nigeria. Greetings, I am contacting you because of a business concerning a huge sum of  money from a deceased deposited in the Bank I work here in Nigeria as  an Accounting Officer here in. Though I know that a transaction of  this magnitude will make any one apprehensive and worried, but I am  assuring you that all will be well at the end of the day as all  arrangement has been well perfected on my side, I actually decided to  contact you due to the urgency of this transaction. PROPOSITION; I discovered an abandoned deposit with my bank, the account name I  shall make known to you in your response, owned by one of the foreign  customers of this bank who was involved in a plane crash on Monday  Novemer 1 1999, you can read more on this link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/world/americas/502503.stm This customer deposited this funds amounting to US$16,000,000.00  (Sixteen million united states dollars), for one year fix deposit on  February 1999 with our bank in Nigeria, the file records shows that  the funds was actually for a project our late costumer wanted to set  up in the year 2000 (a multi million Dollar crude Oil/Engineering  plant in Rivers State Nigeria) that will be in control of the  maintainance of the Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas (NLNG) before his  sudden and untimely death. Ever since the death of this customer the management has expected the  relations or next-of-kin of this customer to come forward and lay  claims for this property as the heir, but this has not been since the  death of this customer, this is basically the reason why I have  contacted you, because this customer is citizen of your Country and as  a foreigner my Bank cannot release the property unless someone a  foreigner from your country applies for claim as the next-of-kin to  the deceased as indicated in our operating guidelines. Upon this discovery, I now seek your permission to have you guided and  presented as the relative and next of kin to the deceased as all  documentations will be carefully worked out with the help of a legal  practioner here in my Country in your favour for the funds to be  released in your favour as the beneficiary's next of kin. It may  interest you to know that I have been give two weeks order to produce  the next of kin of this client and your country embassy has been  contacted without any useful result or this fund will be declared as  unclaimed and be transferred into the tresury account. Please acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of our mutual  business endeavour by furnishing me with the following; 1. Full name 2. Contact address/Email 3. Mobile/Cell phone 4) Fax numbers 5) Brief information on your profile, this should include your age and  marital status These requirements will enable me submit your details with the Bank as  the rightful next of kin of this customer before we embark on the  acquisition of the necessary approvals in your favour for the  immediate release of this fund into your account. I shall compensate you with 45% of the total money while 5% will be  for any expenses incurred the rest will be mine on final conclusion of  this project. Please note that your share stays while the rest shall  be for me for investment purposes. Forward your response with the requested details to this my  confidential:paulphillip23@gmail.com Best Regards, Dr.Paul Phillip Ezenwata.   [ END SCAM E-MAIL ]

DR. PAUL PHILLIP EZENWATA

It's important to note that any real people and / or legitimate organizations whose actual names or other details appear in these scam e-mails have absolutely no connection with this scam! Scammers never use their real names. They frequently take on the identity of real people to help make themselves and their scam appear legitimate.

This is just a small sampling of the many hundreds of advance fee fraud e-mails received each day here at 419BAITER headquarters. It is 100% pure B.S. Purity Guaranteed!

There are many different types of 419 scam (examples) but they all promise you something (fortune, job with salary / commision, low-interest loan, lottery prize, bargain gold dust / diamonds, work visa, etc.) in return for a small 'fee' or some kind of remittance. Of course, there is no fortune, no job, no loan, no prize to be had. It's just a ploy to get you to willingly send them money.

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