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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: "Hassan Diallo" <hdiallo5@hotmail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: hassan_diallo04@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:07:37 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM THE DESK OF DR.HASSAN DIALLO,
HEAD AUDIT AND INVESTIGATION UNIT,
AFRICAN DEVLOPMENT BANK (A.D.B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the head, audit and investigation department of AFRICAN DEVLOPMENT BANK (A.D.B) I am writing to seek your intrest over a transaction. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ($30M US dollars million US DOLLARS) . In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2001 in a plane 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 dont 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 Burkina citizen's 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 .
Please call me immediately as soon as you receive this letter on my private phone number ,(00226-76640939).
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
DR. HASSAN DIALLO,
Head Audit and Investugation Unit,
AFRICAN DEVLOPMENT BANK(A.D.B)
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