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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: "abdulaye baraze" <abdulaye_baraze2001@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:12:37 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM BARAZE, REPLY URGENT.
From the desk ofMR ABDULAYE BARAZE Bill and exchange manager AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB) Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Tele 00226-78 83 80 60. Dear Friend,I am the manager, incharge of bill and exchange of the AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB) 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 Khaild,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 ABDULAYE BARAZE. Bill and exchange manager(ADB).
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