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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 .Yusuf Ahmed." <yusufahmed@mailbox.hu> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:27:59 +0200
Subject: From Dr .Yusuf Ahmed.
Dear Sir,
I am a staff of African Development Bank in Cotonou Benin Republic.I am writing to seek your intrest over a
transaction. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 29.3m In an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2001 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 and other officials in my department 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 dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Five 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 Benin Indigine cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 10 % will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according 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 or your telephone call, 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.
Yours faithfully,
Dr .Yusuf Ahmed.
N/B PLS REPLY TO THIS E-MAIL:yusufahmed41@hotmail.com
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