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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: johnson onwe <j_onwe@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 04:24:46 -0800 (PST)
Subject: URGENT BUSINESS ATTENTION
MR.FUMA INGRAM
BILLS AND EXCAHNGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Sir,
I am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the ForeignRemittance Department of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT Burkina Faso. I am writing following the impressive information about you i got through internet business enquiry. That assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$25.5m US dollars (Twenty Five million, five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in Novermber,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 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 that I and other officials in my department 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 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 unclaimed 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 have resolved that 25% 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 70% would be for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues 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 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 in 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.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.Reply to my alternative mail: (fumaing@zwallet.com).
Yours faithfully,
MR.FUMA INGRAM.
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