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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: "abudu smith" <abudu_smith@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 21:19:35 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM THE DESK OF. DR ABUDU SMITH
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
BANK
OF AFRICA .
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$25 US dollars
(Tweentyfive Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2001 in a
plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next if
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 guidlines and laws 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 now decided to make this business
proposal to you so that the money will be released 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury
as unclaimed bill. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business
is
occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I propose that 30% 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
expenses incured during the business and 60% would be for me.
Thereafter 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 relation 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
wherein the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by e-mail a text of the
application which you'll fill in and send to the bank's email address.. 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 for
further clearifications.
Yours faithfully,
DR ABUDU SMITH
Bill & Exchange Manager
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