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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: "ibrahim musa" <ibrahim_musa105@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 13:13:39 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT.
FROM THE DESK OF IBRAHIM MUSA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA.
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
CALL ME WITH THIS NUMBER 00226 78 851 490
Dear Friend,
TOP SECRET/CONFIDENCIAL AND URGENT TRANSACTIONAL DEMAND.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Bank Of Africa(BOA).
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 businees opportunity.
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $25,300m US dollars
(Twenty five million three hundred thousand 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 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 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
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.
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 incured during the business and 60 % would be for ;me
and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues 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.IBRAHIM MUSA
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank Of Africa (BOA).
_________________________________________________________________
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