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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: "Dr Kufo Mustapha." <drkufo04@jumpy.it> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kufo02@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:34:43 +0100
Subject: Please Read And Reply Urgent...
Banque International Du Burkina,
Avenue Dimdolobsom
01BP 6565 Ouaga 01,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Dear friend
I am Dr Kufo Mustapha. General Manager(Treasury) of Banque International Du Burkina. (BIB)This is an urgent and very confidential business proposition.
I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business deal. In my department,I discovered an abandoned sum of US$12,300,000.00, (Twelve Million, three hundred thousand Dollars) only , in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but resident in Burkina Faso, West Africa and a physician .
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, 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 now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money Could go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for your assistance and maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this business
is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.
40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for the expenses that may be incurred during the business and 50 % would be for me. There after I will come over to 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 the relation or next of kin to the deceased, indicating your claims and where the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of application which you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign remittance director of the Banque International Du Burkina. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is strictly confidential
and I will use my position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.
Please, visit the website below for more information about the Plane Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Awaiting your urgent reply
Thanks and my regards.
Dr Kufo Mustapha.
N/B. Please reply through my alternative email address indicated below;
kufo02@yahoo.com
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