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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: "Titi Mustapha" <mrs_titi225@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: mrs_titi01@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:20:12 +0000
Subject: please respond urgently!!
FROM THE DESK OF MRS TITI MUSTAPHA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
THE AFRICAN BANK (T A B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
DEAR Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of The African Bank. I am writing, following the impressive information
about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your
country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$12.5m dollars (Twelve million five hundred thousand USD) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in a plane crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa.
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
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlines and laws, 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, I 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 I don't want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidine here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after six years, the money will be tranfered into the bank as
unclaimed bill.I therefore agree that 40% of this money will be for you as
foreigner partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10%
will be set aside for expenses incured during the business and 50% would be
for me.There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to
the percentages indicated.Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of
this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation
or next of kin to the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account
number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication and location where in the money will be remitted.
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
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.Due to the nature of
confidentiality in this Transaction I would want you to contact me via my
alternative email address mrs_titi01@yahoo.com.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
MRS TITI MUSTAPHA.
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