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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: "prince kone" <princekone1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: princekoneh2005@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:11:38 +0000
Subject: transaction
FROM THE DESK OF PRINCE KONE
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK-ADB ANNEX
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
PHONE 00226 7642 3460.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of African Development Bank (ADB). In my department we discovered
an abandoned sum of US$30m dollars (THIRTY MILLION US DOLLARS) in an account
that belongs to one of our foreign
customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who diedalong with his
entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash. FOR MOREINFORMATION VISIT THIS
SITE BELOW
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since we got information 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
alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore 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
occassioned by 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 the
immediate transfer of this fund to
you arranged,you must apply first to the 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 to bring 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 as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
PRINCE KONE
BILL AND EXCHANGEMANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
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