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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: "issa ahmed" <issa_aa11@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:33:41 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL
FROM THE DESK OF ISSA AHMAD
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
B.I.C.I.A.B OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
PRIVATE and CONFIDENTIAL
ATTENTION MR/MRS
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of bank lnternationale pour le Commerce et le lndustrie et de la Agriculture
du Burkina-Faso I am writing following the impressive information about you
through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your country. He
assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business
opportunity.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20m US
dollars ( Twenty million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in november
16,2001 in a plane crash. Since we got information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him
at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I now decided to make this businness proposal to you and
release the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don´t
want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking
law and guideline here stipulatesthat if such money remained unclamed after
five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.50 % of this money will be for
you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 50
% would be for me . There after I will visit your country for disbursement
accoding to the percentages indicated.Therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as
relations or next of kin of the deceased indicating your bank name, your
bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and location where in the money will be remitted
.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer .You should
contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Trusting to hear
from you immediately.
Your´s faithfully,
Dr Issa Ahmad
Bill and exchange
manager,
BANK BICIAB
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