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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: "ahmad farug" <ahmad_farug46@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:03:36 +0000
Subject: URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION .
FROM THE DESK OF MR.AHMAD FARUG,
BILL AND EXHANGE UNIT
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
URGENT ASSISTANCE IN TRANSACTION
I am the manager at the bill and exchange department bank of
african(ADB)here in Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso.
In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$18.2m dollars ( USdollars)in
an account that belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died along with
his entire family in Monday,31 July, 2000 in a plane crash in paris.Please
visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in other
to swallow the money at the end ofthe
day,http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm"
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 guidlings and laws 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 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed 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 occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30% of this money
will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account ,10%will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 60% would 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 your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the bank as a
relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application that i
will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your private telephone and
faxnumber 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 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.
Dear p/s reply this email thanks
Yours Faithfully,MR.AHMAD FARUG.(ADB)
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