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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: "Dr. Musa Dura" <musadura@gawab.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: musadura@post.cz
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 21:56:04 +0000
Subject: Treat as urgent and call me 00226-78-81-04-32
FROM THE DESK OF DR. MUSA DURA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:00226-78-81-04-32
Alternative E-mail:musadura@post.cz
Dear Sir/Madam
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but due to the urgency of this transaction. I am the manager of bill and
exchange at the foreign remittance department of African Development bank(ADB).
I am writing to you, following the impressive information received about you from the chambers of commerce. I believed that
you are capable and reliable to champion this business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$30m US dollars (Thirty million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his entire family in November 1999 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 and other officials in my department
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 guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be
transferred 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.
We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my
colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according 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.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. Musa Dura
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB
Please reply to my alternative email:musadura@alexandria.cc
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