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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: "Hamidu Idris" <hamdu_idris40@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: h_idris3@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:14:25 +0000
Subject: Urgent response needed
Urgent response needed
Dear,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may
be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $30.5m US dollars (Thirty
million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin(his son and wife) 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 business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next
of kin (We want to present you as his business associate )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 after seven years, the money will be transferred 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 incurred during
the business and 60% would be for me and my colleagues. There after 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 next
of kin of the deceased customer. 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.
I expect that you call me on my private line +226 76 527576 for more
details immediately you receive this letter.
Hoping to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
DR. HAMIDU IDRIS
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa
Nb.also give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy communication with
you.
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