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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: "aleim mussaa" <aleimmussaa3@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: aleimmussaa1@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:10:25 +0000
Subject: IT IS ME ALEIM MUSSAA
FROM THE DESK OF ALEIM MUSSAA,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.WEST AFRICA.
With Due Respect,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of african development bank (ADB). I crave your indulgence as i contact you
in such a surprising manner. But I respectfully insist you read this letter
carefully as I am optimistic it will open doors for unimaginable financial
rewards for both of us.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of Ten Million,Five
Hundred Thousand US dollars (US$10.5m) only , in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
November
2000 in a plan 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 along with him at the
plan crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you so that the money could be released 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 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 for a foreigner as next of kin in this
business
is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money
will be for you as a 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.
There after I 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 relation 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 wherein 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.
Yours faithfully,
Aleim Mussaa,
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB
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