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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: "Mr Duru Amadi" <duru_amadi4@zwallet.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: duru_amadi9@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:50:40 +0100
Subject: DEAR FRIEND REQUESTING FOR YOUR URGENT CO-OPERATION
FROM THE DESK OF MR DURU AMADI.
MANAGER BILL EXCHANGE OF THE FOREIGN
REMITTRANCE DEPARTMENT OF
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA
LOME REPUBLIC OF TOGO IN WEST AFRICA
DIRECT TELPHONE LINE NO +228-9081377
Dear Friend.
I got your email contact from business net while searching for a foreign partner who will assist me on this business. In my department, we discoverred an abandoned sum of 10 million US Dollars <Ten million, US Dollars) in 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 can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side 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's treasury as unclaimed. The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Six years, the money will be tranfered into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an indegine can not stand as next of kin to this family. We agreed 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 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 relation 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 the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail 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 immeidately.
Thanks yours Faithful.
Mr Duru Amadi
+228-9081377
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