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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: "jaba bako" <jaba_bako18@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 07:51:03 +0000
Subject: treat as urgent
FROM DR.JABA BAKO.
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA (BOA)
OUAGA-BURKINA FASO
TELEPHONE +226-76-60-94-42.
Dear
With presumed reliance, let me introduce myself. My name is Dr.JABA BAKO. I
am the auditing and accounting officer of Bank of africa (BOA). I got your
contact over the Internet in my search for the relatives of one of our
numerous customers who died alongside with his family in an air crash having
discovered that you share the same name.
During the routine check in my branch, I discovered an abandoned sum of
fourty million
united states dollars,(USD$40m). in an account belonging to an expatriate
customer Mr. Frederic Aaron, a mining consultant/contractor with one of the
leading oil company in Ouaga-Burkina Faso before his accidental death on
Saturday 4Th May 2002 in Nigeria via the ill-fated EAS Airline crash. You
may visit the following websites to read more about the incident.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968616.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1968300.stm
http://www.usafricaonline.com/ngrkanocrash.html
Ever since then, valuable efforts have been made to get to his people but to
no avail, as he had no known relatives and more so, he used his wife's name
as his next of kin in his account opening forms. I have been expecting his
relatives to come over to claim his money as it cannot be claimed unless
somebody applies officially for it as his next of kin as indicated in our
banking guide but no avail. Unfortunately, I discovered that his supposed
next of kin (his wife and children) died with him over the plane crash
incident.
Over the years, I decided to look for the necessary papers relating to the
deposit in order to make business out of it as the deposit was made in my
branch. Now that all papers are ready, I am asking for your assistant to
release the money to you as his relation/next of kin for safekeeping and
subsequent disbursement. I know that a transaction of this magnitude will
make any one apprehensive but I am assuring you of the Security of us all as
modalities have been perfected for a swift and smooth operation.
You are being contacted because you share the same name with the deceased.
Since nobody showed up for his money and I don't want it to go back into
Burkina Faso Government account as unclaimed bill when the next audit is
conducted. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that such money if
remain unclaimed, will be transferred into banking treasury as unclaimed
effect. The request of a foreigner to act as next of kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a citizen of
Burkina Faso cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. You are most
qualified in this transaction as you share the same name with the deceased.
I am ready to negotiate the mode of sharing with you. I will visit your
country for the disbursement/investing of my share according to the
percentages we shall agree upon after the successful transfer of the money
to your account.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100%
hitch-free and there is absolutely no risk in it, having concluded the
modalities for a smooth operation and my position in the bank guarantees its
successful execution. All I require is your honest co-operation, a guarantee
of your sincerity and capability to enable us conclude this deal. Note
however that the sensitive nature of this transaction demands that you have
to keep it absolutely confidential.
Please accept my apologies, keep my confidence and disregard this letter if
you do not appreciate this proposition. Thank you very much for your time.
Trusting to hear from you immediately,
Yours faithfully,
Best regards,
Dr.JABA BAKO
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