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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: "yaya fahim" <yayafahim3@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 20:21:26 +0000
Subject: STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL.
FROM THE DESK OF YAYA FAHIM
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -ADB
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
STRICTLY
CONFIDENTIAL.
Dear Sir,
I am the bill and exchange Manager at the foreign
remittance department of African Developent bank
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 15m US dollars
Fifteen million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family in a plane
crash.Since we got information about his death, we have beenexpecting 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 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 we don’t want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that 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 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
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 %
will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 60 % would be
for ;me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit
your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.
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 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,
YAYA FAHIM
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development Bank (ADB)
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