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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: "ali maiga" <ali_maiga7@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:56:36 +0000
Subject: Trusting to hear from you immediately.
FROM THE DESK OF ALI MAIGA.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK-ADB ANNEX
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
PHONE
MY PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS (ali_maiga1@yahoo.com)
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
died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a
plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION 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 to come over and claim his money
because we cannot release itunless some body applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidlings 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 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 guidline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after five years, the money 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 cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.I agree that 30% of this money will be 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 disbursement according 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 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 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.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
ALI MAIGA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
_________________________________________________________________
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