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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 kabiru" <abdulk8@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:05:42 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL
Dr.Abdul Kabiru
Bill and Exchange manager.
Bank Of Africa(BOA)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
Tel:00226 76 52 94 60
FROM THE DESK OF DR.ABDUL KABIRU.
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 i discovered an abandoned sum of $ 30M US dollars (thirty
million,US Dollars), in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his family in a plane crash in 1999 and since
we got the 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 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 money remained
unclaimed some number of years,it 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 30% 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 65% would be for me and my colleagues.
moreover, 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 14 working days.
Best regards,
ABDUL KABIRU.
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