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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: johnson_mugu@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:16:29 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?TREAT=20AS=20URGENT=20AND=20CONFIDENTIAL=2E?=
FROM THE DESK OF MR.JOHNSON MUGU
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager bill and exchange at AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) foreign
remittance department . There is a business I would want you to champion
for me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $22.6MUSD dollars (Twenty
two million and two hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
november 2000 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 in the plane crash leaving
nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I 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 guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after four 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. I 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 . Thereafter I will visit your country for disbursement
accoding to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer 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
MR.JOHNSON MUGU
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