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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 Buriki Bite" <buriki01@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2005 04:23:02 +0000
Subject: waiting.to hear from you
From the Desk of.Mr Buriki Bite
Bill and Exchange Manager
Foreign Remittance Dept.
Bank of Africa Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso
Attn,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of Bank of Africa Ouagadougou Burkina Faso (BOA). I am writing
following the impressive information about you through my research from your country directory. its assured me of your capability and
reliability to champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $18.5m US dollars
eighteen million, five hundred thousand U.S dollars) . In an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in a concord plane crash in the year 2000 in Paris that almost took the whole life of the passengers on board 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 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 account 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 an Burkina cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be
foryou as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 10% will be set aside for expenses insured during the business and 60 %
would be for me .
There after I 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
privatetelephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
locationwhere 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, through my privet email buriki@mail2world.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Buriki Bite
(bill and exchange manager boa). Private line
(00226-76-40-79-71 .
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