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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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From: "prince kone" <princekone03@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: princekoneh2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 03:57:20 +0000
Subject: TRANSACTION PROPOSAL
FROM THE DESK OF PRINCE KONE
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK-ADBANNEX
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
PHONE 00226 7642 3460.
DearFriend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the
foreignremittance department
of African Development Bank (ADB). In mydepartment we
discovered
an abandoned sum of US$30m dollars (THIRTYMILLION US
DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of ourforeign
customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who
diedalong with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a
plane crash. FOR MOREINFORMATION VISIT THIS SITEBELOW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we gotinformation about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin tocome over and claim his money
because we cannot release itunless somebody applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased asindicated in
our banking guidlings and laws but unfortunately welearnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongsidewith him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind
for the claim.
It istherefore upon this discovery that I now decided to
make this businessproposal to you and release the money to
you as the next of kin orrelation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent disbursement sincenobody is coming
for it and we don't want this money to go into thebank
treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline herestipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after fours years, themoney will
be transfered into the banktreasury as unclaimed fund.The
request of foreigner as next of kin inthis business is
occassionedby the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Burkinabe cannotstand as next of kin to a
foreigner.I agree that 30% of this money willbe for you as
a respect to the provision of a foriegn account , 10%will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and
60%would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country
for disbursementaccording to the percentage indicated
Therefore, to enable theimmediate transfer of this fund to
you arranged,you must apply first tothe bank as relation
or next of kin of the deceased indicating yourbank name,
your bank account number, your private telephone andfax
number for easy and effective communication and location
where inthe money
will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send toyou by fax or
email the text of the application .
I will not fail tobring to your notice this transaction is
hitch-free and that you shouldnot entertain any atom of
fear as all required arrangements have beenmade for the
transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon asyou receive
this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
PRINCE KONE
BILL AND EXCHANGEMANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
_________________________________________________________________
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