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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: "hazim hussan" <hazim_hussa04@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:29:42 +0000
Subject: urgent and confidential
FROM THE DESK OF hazim hussan
Dear Friend,
With due respect, I write to you this urgent and confidential business
proposal. I am the manager of bill and exchange,foreign remittance
department of THE BANK OF AFRICA IN BURKINA FASO. I an impressive
information i got during one of my internet research programme on my quest
for a capable hand who will handle this transaction for me. i am sure of
your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $20.5M US dollars, in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died in July 2000 in
the Concord Plane crash in Paris.Since we got the information about his
death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his
fund 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 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 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 guideline here stipulates that if such fund remained unclaimed after
four years, the fund will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as
unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as the next of kin or relation
in this business is occasioned for the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We
agreed that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 70% would be for me and my
colleagues.
moreoevr i and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to your account 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 numbers for
easy and effective communication and location where in the money will be
remitted. Everything will be through within 24 working days.
Best regards,
DR.hazim hussan .
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