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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: "Dr. Salif Mamadou" <salifmamadou121@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: salifmamadou055@yahoo.ca
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:02:23 +0000
Subject: Requesting Your Urgent Investment Partnership
Dear Sir,
First, I must apologise to you for using this medium to communicate about
this transaction, though it is my great pleasure in writing you this letter
on behalf of my colleague and myself. I am Dr. Salif Mamadou, the Director
of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department in the bank where
I work. I am writing to you this urgent proposal following the impressive
information about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm.
Though, I did not disclose to him the nature of my proposal to you to avoid
any leakage. My colleague and I have decided to contact you on a business
transaction that will be very beneficial to both of us at the end. I would
be brief and direct to ensure you understand everything properly.
In my department we discovered an abandoned Sum of $13.7M USD ( Thirteen
Million, Seven Hundred Thousand US Dollars), in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customers, an American by name: Mr. John Schelpert who
died along with his wife and other passengers in EgyptAir Flight 990 - October
31, 1999. Since we got information about his untimely death, the fund has
been dormant in his account with my Bank without any claim, we have been
expecting his next of 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 and the person must be a foreigner as indicated in our banking guidelines.
Before our observation in this development, we discovered that the owner
of the account died without a Heir/WILL hence the money is floating and if
I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited for nothing.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury
account as unclaimed fund. It is therefore upon this discovery that I and
my junior colleague in the bank now decided to make this businness 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 do not want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill.
Meanwhile the whole arrangement to put claim over these fund as the bonafide
next of kin to the deceased and transfer this money to a foreign account
has been put in place. Directives and needed information will be relayed
to you as soon as you indicate your interest and willingness to assist us
and also benefit from this great business opportunity. We could have done
this deal on our own, but because of our position in this country operating
a local account would eventually raise an eye brow on my side during the
time of transfer because I work in this bank.
This is the actual reason why it will require foreigner as second party that
will forward claims as the next of kin to the Bank and also present a designated
safe foreign account where he will need the money to be transferred into
after due verification and clearification by the bank. May I at this point
emphasize that this transaction is a successful arrangement, and as an insider
of the bank I have the capacity to monitor that everything is smoothly perfected.
On smooth conclusion of this transaction, you will be entitled to your own
share of the total sum as gratification. We have agreed that 20 % of this
money will be for you as our foreign partner, in respect to the provision
of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for expenses incured during the
business and 75% would be for me and my colleague. There after I and my colleague
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
This share of yours is negotiable as long as it is reasonable. Please, you
have been adviced to keep this information a top secret as we are still in
service and intend to retire from service after we conclude this deal with
you. I will be monitoring the whole situation here in this bank until you
confirm the money in your account and ask us to come down to your country
for subsequent sharing of the fund according to percentages we shall agree
upon. All other necessary information will be sent to you on your acceptance
to champion this transaction with us. I suggest you get back to me as soon
as possible, stating your wish in this deal.
Thanks and best regards.
Yours faithfully,
Salif Mamadou
Tel: 00221 699.9741
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