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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: "dauda adama" <dauda_adama@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 07:22:05 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY
FROM THE DESK OF
MR.DAUDA ADAMA. Accountant General
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction.This is by virtue
of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP SECRET. However We were
directed last year 2004 by the council of ministers to carry out a careful
and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to foreign customers and to
effect payments immediately.
During the above mentioned process, an abandoned sum of US$15.5M (fifteen
million five hundred thousand US dollars)was discovered in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.
Since we got information about his death, the Bank have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because this fund can not be
release unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately
all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane Crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
It is therefore upon this discovery that i as the Accountant General in the
Bank 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
i don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account,and 60% would be for me, while
10% will be for expenses incure during the transaction. There after I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage 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
customer and give the Bank your information wherein the money will be
remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will
only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and move
the fund into your account without any delay and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for
the transfer.
You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send
you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased customer.
Yours faithfully.
MR DAUDA ADAMA
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