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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: "Mr.Abu Madi" <mrabumadi7@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:57:44 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
FROM THE DESK OF MR.ABU MADI
BANK B.I.C.I.A.B
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
PRIVATE CONFIDENTIAL
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of bank lnternationale pour le Commerce et le
lndustrie et de la Agriculture du Burkina-Faso I know that this letter may
come to you as a suprise.I got your contact
address from the Internet while I was searching for a business partner
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 20m US dollars ( Twenty
million US dollars) .
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in november 16,1998 in a plane crash.
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
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 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
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 I don´t want this money to go
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulatesthat if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
thefact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.
50 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the
provision of a foreign account, 50 % would be for me .There after I will
visit your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as relations 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 in the money will be remitted .
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 letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your´s faithfully,
ABU MADI
Bill and exchange manager,
BANK BICIAB
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