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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: "ibrahim issa" <ibrahimissa17@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:44:11 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY FROM MR.IBRAHIM ISSA
From Mr IBRAHIM ISSA.
Auditing And Accounting Department
Bank Of Africa, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
I am the manager in charge of auditing and accounting department bank of
Africa ouagadougou burkina faso .With due respect and regard i have decided
to contact you on a business transaction that will be beneficial to both of
us at the end of the transaction .
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10.5m ( ten million five
hundred thousand us dollars ) in an account that belong to one of our
foriengn customer who died along with his family on (NOVEMBE,2000 ) in a
plane crash and the fund has been dormat in his account with this bank
without any claim of fund since we got the infomation about his death , the
bank has been expecting his next of kin to come down and claim his money
because the bank cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of
kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking principles.
It is therefore upon this discovery that i have decided to make this
business proposal to you so that the bank will 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 i dont want this money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill because the banking law and
guidelines here stipulate that if such money remained unclaimed after (5)
FIVE years , the money will be transfered into the bank treasury as un
claimed fund . The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreiner and Burkinabe cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreiner.
In this transaction ( 30 percent ) of this money will be for you as foreign
partner in respect of the provision of a foreign account , (10 percent )
will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and ( 60
percent would be for me.
There after i will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage 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 account number
, your telephone and fax number for easy efective communication and location
where the money will be remmitted.
Upon receipt of your reply , i will send to you by fax or mail the text of
appliction which you shall fill and send to the bank and i will not fail to
bring to your notice that this transaction is risk free and that you should
not entertain any fear as all arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me immidiately as soon as you receive this message .
Thanks for your co-operation.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
IBRAHIM ISSA,
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