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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: ramadanabdu8@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 08:27:56 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Call=20me=20now=2000226=2D78=2D81=2D04=2D32?=
FROM THE DESK OF DR. RAMADAN ABDU
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:00226-78-81-04-32
Alternative e-mail:ramabdu@sellzone.com
Dear Sir/Madam
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise but due to the urgency
of this transaction.First I must solicit your confidence in this transaction,
this is by virtue of it's nature as being utterly confidential and top secret.
Though I know that a transaction of this magnitude will make any one apprehensive
and worried, but I am assuring you that all will be well at the end of the
day. There is no doubt that trust conceptually is a conundrum which leadsitself
to deferring interpretation, we have decided to contact you due to the urgency
of this transaction.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of African Development bank (ADB). I came to know you in my private search
for a reliable and reputable person to handle this Confidential Transaction,
which involves thetransfer of a huge sum of money to a foreign account
requiring maximum confidence.
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 business opportunity. In my department 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 On August 23, 2000 through Gulf Air Flight 72 with Airbus A320 crashed
off, killing all 143 people on board and you can view the site for more
details:http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N32/gulfair.32w.html
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 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 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. Ramadan Abdu
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB
N.B:you can view the site for more details:http://www-tech.mit.edu/V120/N32/gulfair.32w.html
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Confidentiality Notice: The information in this e-mail is confidential and
may also be the subject of legal privilege. It is intended solely for the
addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately.
You are hereby placed on notice that any copying, publication or any other
form of dissemination of this e-mail or its contents is prohibited.
This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept by MIMEsweeper
for the presence of computer viruses.
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