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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: "Abdul karim Mohamed" <karim_forallah23@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:26:45 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT
FROM THE DESK OF MR ABDUL KARIM MOHAMED
MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT
BANK OF AFRICA
LAGOS NIGERIA.
ATTENTION :Friend
I am the manager foreign remitance department Bank of Africa. I got your
email adress while searching for trustworthy cuontries and individuals. I
wish to seek your partnership in business because I discovered unclaim sum
of $ 10m US dollars in our bank which belonged to one of our late foreign
customer who died with his entire family in Paris plane crash 2000. I
discovered this while cross-checking the files of foreigners in my
department since our Federal Government has announced on the need of
settling all foreign bills to enable foreign investors to come into our
country and as an order from African Unity governed by African heads. Since
I discovered the unclaim fund and about his death, I have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because our bank 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 I 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 as to be
a partner to claim the fund since nobody is coming for it and I dont want
this money to go into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after six 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 because the customer was not a Nigerian and a Nigerian cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 30 % of this money will be
for you as foreign partner, since you are provide an account for the claim,
10 % will be set aside for expenses incured during the business which means
what ever you will spend during the transfer after it will be taken out of
the 10% and 60 % would be for me. There after I will visit your country for
disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated if agreed.Therefore to
enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin with the informations I
will give you about the account and the owner/deceased. therefore thereafter
will provide your 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 you will include all these in the
application addressed to our remittance director to the address of I will
give you later.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you the pattern of the
application you will copy and re-send to our remittance director for the
claim. 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 and the file of the
fund is under my desk
Yours faithfully,
Abdul karim Mohamed.
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