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Bet you regret deleting all those emails you got from that Nigerian prince.

More than $43 million in U.S. dollar notes was uncovered in an apartment in Nigeria by the country's Economic and Marathi ArchivesFinancial Crimes Commission.

The EFCC announced on Facebook that they had received a whistleblower's tip that someone had been moving bags in and out of the apartment.

Naturally, everyone only had one thing to say about this.

@ctvedmonton I think this is mine, I got a legimate looking email a few weeks back about it. Please contact pic.twitter.com/NAgj6Kdixr

— iwan hughes (@IwanHughes2001) April 16, 2017

@ctvedmonton The guy must've email a thousand people asking for help transferring that money. Was even willing to pay. No one wanted to help. #Sad!

— Patrick McDevitt (@pfmcdevitt) April 15, 2017

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@ctvedmonton Okay, okay, my credit card number is 4053 2311 3441 2211, so please do go ahead and release the funds to my bank account.

— The Ottawa Ross (@ottaross) April 16, 2017

@ctvedmonton Must be the home of the fabled Nigerian Prince we have heard about...

— Notminenotnownotever (@notminenotnow) April 16, 2017

@CNN Maybe I should email that Nigerian prince back, after all 🤔

— Kristina Montesano (@ohthatkristina) April 14, 2017

The news trended after social media users quickly picked up on the fact that the event occurred in Nigeria -- a reference to the many scam emails often sent from a "Nigerian royal figure" soliciting users to transfer thousands of dollars with the promise of a larger reward at the end.

Most of the emails start off with something like this:

I've gotten a lot of spam, but Ive never actually received an email claiming to be from a Nigerian prince, until now pic.twitter.com/7HmirOZdHG

— Alex Gill (@thealexgill) April 1, 2015

According to the EFCC, in addition to the U.S. dollars, $75,000 worth of Nigerian currency and $35,000 in British pound sterling were also found "neatly arranged" inside fireproof cabinets hidden behind wooden panels.

Investigations are ongoing, said Nigerian officials.

Earlier last week, the EFCC uncovered some $817,000 in cash from a market in Lagos, and some $1.5 million at a shopping mall.

Nigeria is ranked 136 out of 176 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index in 2016.