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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: chris zama <chris45zz22@yahoo.fr>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:56:41 +0100 (CET)
Subject: WITH DUE RESPECT.
FROM THE DESK OF DR.CHRIS.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprisebut due to the urgency of this transaction. I am the manager of bill andexchange 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 youare capable and reliable to champion this business opportunity. In mydepartment 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 nthe 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. Chris.
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB.A
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