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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: "karim ahmed" <karimahmed009@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 21:14:00 +0000
Subject: TREAT URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
Dear Sir/ Madam,
I am Mr AHMED KARIM, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department african develoment bank annex burkina faso
ouagadougou.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5M (twenty million
five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his family in the December 25th Benin
plane crash. Here is the air crash website on cnn =
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we cannot release it unless
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guide lines and lawsbut 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 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 bill.The
banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years, the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as respect to the provision
of a foreign account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the business and 60% be for me.Thereafter, 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 indicating your bank
name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will be
transfer.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application. 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 mail on:(00226
76 47 37 19)
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully.
AHMED KARIM.
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