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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: "malik rasaq" <m_rasaq_022@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2005 15:16:35 +0000
Subject: EXTREMLY CONFIDENTIAL REPLY URGENTLY
FROM THE DESK OF ALH MALIK RASAQ.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) OUAGADOUGOU,
BURKINA FASO WEST AFRICA.
TRANSFER OF ($27,500.000.00 USD)
(TWENTY SEVEN MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS)
Dear Sir/Madam
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 27,500.000.00 USD) Twenty seven million
Five hundred thousand United States Dollars) from the Bank of Africa, I
want to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will
be capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this funds quitely.
I am Alhaji ABDUL HAMZA, the accountant personal confidant to Dr.
Ravindra F. Shah who died together with his wife Dr.Mrs. Manjula
Parikh-Shah in a plane crash on the 1st Oct. 2003 on their way to attend
wedding in Boston.
Mr. Ravindra F. Shah, is an American, a physician and industrialist, he died
last year tow without having any beneficiary to his assets including his
account here in Burkina Faso which he opened in a Bank of Africa in the
year 2000 as his personal savings for the purpose of expansion and
developement of his companybefore his untimely death in 2003.
The amount involved is (USD 27,500,000.00)Twenty seven Million Five Hundred
Thousand USD, no other person knows about this account, I am contacting you
for us to transfer this funds to your account as the
beneficiary, I want to first transfer $7,500.000.00 ( Seven million five
hundred thousand USD) from this money into a safe account abroad, after
which we will transfer the remaining (20M) but I don't know any foreigner, I
am only contacting you as a foreigner because this money can not be approved
to a local person here, without valid international foreign passport, but
can only be approved to any foreigner with valid international passport or
drivers license and foreign a/c because the money is in US Dollars and the
former owner of the a/c Mr.Ravindra F. Shah is a foreigner too, and as such
the money can only be approved into a foreign a/c.
However, I am revealing this to you with believe in ALLHA that you will
never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only person
that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so that I
will inform you the next step to take urgently. Send also your private
telephone and fax number including the full details of the account to be
used for the deposit.
I need your full co-operation to make this work fine. because the management
is ready to approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct
information of this account, which I will give to you, upon your positive
response and once I am convinced that you are capable and will meet up with
instruction of a key bank official who is deeply involved with me in this
business.
At the conclusion of this business, you will be given 30% of the total
amount, 60% will be for me, while 10% will be for expenses both parties
might have incurred during the process of transferring.
because of the nature of this proposal, therefore I ask that you consider
the factors above and keep it strictly confidential. However, if you feel
you are unable to fulfil this role, I request you discard of this letter.
upon receipt of this message in acceptance of my mutual business
endeavour by furnishing me with the following;
1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers.
To facilitate easy and fast communication
Sincerely,
ALLHA BLESS YOU.
ALH MALIK RASAQ.
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