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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: "Mr Achuzia Obi" <alex_ogene1970@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alex_ogene2004@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 19:26:16 +0400
Subject: WEBSITE...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
From The Desk Of Achuzia Obi(Esq).
The Head Of File Department,
Ecowas Bank International
Lome Togo West Africa.
Phone: 00228-906-30-64.
PLANE CRASH WEB
WEBSITE...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm>
Website:ecowas.info
("REMITTANCE OF $10.5 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS
CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
Compliment Of The Season,
On a very good day. I am (Achuzia Obi Esq),The Head of file Department
in Ecowas Bank Lome Togo (ECOWASBANK).I got your contact from the internet web directory.
When i was searching for a foreign partner whom will assured me of his capability
and reliability to champion this businees opportunity when i prayed to God
about you.In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10,500,000.00
million U.S.A dollars ( Ten million Five Hundred U.S.A dollars) . In an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in (Monday 31st July 2000) 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
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 that I and one official in my
department now decided to make this businness 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
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered 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 incured during the business and 60 %
would be for me and my woman colleague.There after i will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer 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 bank name, your bank account number, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location where
the money will be remitted.
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.
You should contact me on my number 00228-906-30-64, immediately as
soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your's faithfully,
Achuzia Obi(Esq.)
POST SCRITUM:You have to keep everything secret as to enable the
transfer to move very smoothly in to the account you will prove to the bank.As you
finished reading this letter call me immediately so that we discuss
very well over this business.
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