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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: "hasheed kafil" <hasheed_kafil@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 13:33:47 +0000
Subject: MESSAGE FROM HASHEED KAFIL/URGENT REPLY.
From the desk of MR.Hasheed Kafil.
Bill and exchange manager(BOA)
Bank of Africa Ouagadougou,
Burkina Faso.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager, incharge of bill and exchanger of the BANK OF AFRICA
(BOA) foreign remittance department.There is a business l would want you
to champion for me.In my department l discovered an abandoned sum of US $30m
(Thrity million,united states dollars)In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer .who died along with his entire family in
an Aroplane crash in Kenya. (for more information about this crash and
person you can contact this
website:PlaneCrash:www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.htmlIt
Since we got information about his death,we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not 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 along side with him in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that l 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 fund.
The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe can not stand as
next of kin to a foriegner.l have agreed, that after the smooth conculsion
of the trasaction,that l will make it 50-50 for you considering you as a
foreign partner,in respect to the provision of a foreign account,There
after l will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage agreed.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer 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 full name,your private telephone and fax
numbers for easy and effective communication and the location where in,the
money will be ramitted.Upon the receipt of your reply,l will send to you by
EMAIL OR FAX the text of the application.
Be you informed that this transaction is hitch free both now and in the
fulture you should not entertain any fear what soever,as all required
arrangements have been perfected for the transfer.Trusting to hear from you
immediately.
Yours faithfully
MR.Hasheed Kafil.
Bill and exchange manager(BOA).
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