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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: "dickson edward7" <dickson_edward7@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 20:40:28 +0000
Subject: URGENT REPLY NEEDED
FROM THE DESK OF MR DICKSON EDWARD
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
THE AFRICAN BANK (T A B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
DEAR Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of The African Bank. I am writing, following the impressive information
about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your
country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
U.S$12.5m dollars (Twelve million five hundred thousand USD) in an account
that belongs toone of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in November 1998 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 some body applies for it as next of kin
or relation to the deceased as indicated
in our banking guidlines 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, I now
decided to makethis 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 I don't want this money to go
into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidine here
stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after six years, the money will be tranfered into the bank as
unclaimed bill
I therefore agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreigner
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and
50% 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 to 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.
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 recieve this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
MR DICKSON EDWARD
URGENT REPLY NEEDED
_________________________________________________________________
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