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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: "yerima baku" <yerimabaku3@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:35:25 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM YERIMA.
From the desk of
MR YERIMA BAKU
Bill and exchange manager
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)
Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager, incharge of bill and exchange of the Bank Of Africa (BOA)
foreign remittance department.There is a business l would want you to
champion for me.In my department l discovered an abandoned sum of US $30m
(Thirty million united states dollars)In an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer Mr Abdul Nasser Khalid,he is from Brunei.who died along
with his entire family in Novmber 1999 in an Aeroplane crash in Abidjan
coast in Cote D'Ivoire. (for more information about this crash and the
person,please visit this website:
http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-99/11-02-99/d08ho174.htm).
Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not 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 along side with him in the plane
crash leaving noone as the right beneficairy to his balance with our bank.
It is therefore upon this discovery that l 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 fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as
next of kin to him.l have agreed, that after the smooth conclusion of the
transaction,that l will make it 60-40 for you considering you as a foreign
partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account,There after l will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage agreed.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you account as
arranged,you will apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of
the deceased,indicating your full name,your private telephone and fax
numbers for easy and effective communication and the location where in the
money will be remitted.Upon the receipt of your reply, l will send to you
by EMAIL OR FAX the text of the application.
Be you informed that this transaction is hitch free both now and in the
future you should not entertain any fear whatsoever,as all required
arrangements have been perfected for the transfer.Trusting to hear from you
immediately.
Yours faithfully
MR YERIMA BAKU
Bill and exchange manager(BOA).
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