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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: "Aliyashi MALIK" <malikaliyashi@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: malikaliyashi2005@yahoo.com
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 10:16:25 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE REQUIRED.
Attn Please:
My Name is Mr. Aliyashi MALIK, a credit and finance manager with African Development Bank
here in Dakar Senegal. In my department i discovered an abandoned funds (USD$ 20.5 million)
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER
from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire family in July 2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm Since i got information about his death,
I have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidlings and laws 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 business 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 we don't want this money to
go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guidline here stipulates
that if such money remained unclaimed after Six 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 occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Indigene cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner. Your percentage will be declare to you as soon as you
indicate your interest. I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
indicated once you have agreed to get this fund transfered through your account. Therefore,
to enable the immediate move of this fund to you arranged, you must apply first to the bank
as relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating.
1.Your full name and address
2.Your telephone and fax number for easy communication.
3.Your company's name and address.
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 movement
of the money. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
ALIYASHI MALIK.
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