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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: "issa_benedo1950@yahoo.com" <issa_benedo@terra.com.mx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 14:20:44 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM THE DESK OF DR ZAGRE YAKO
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
Dear friend ,
I am the manager of Auditing and Accounting department of BANK OF AFRICA(=
B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$23.3m (Twenty three=
million three hundred thousand us dollars) in an account that belongs to=
one of our foreign customer (MR.ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich,Germany) w=
ho died along with his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.For m=
ore information about the crash you can visit this site:
( 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 it unl=
ess some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased a=
s 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 busin=
ess proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or re=
lation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobod=
y is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treas=
ury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained =
unclaimed after Six years, the money will be transfered into the bank tre=
asury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned b=
y the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigne=
r.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provis=
ion of a foriegn account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred du=
ring the business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your c=
ountry for disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, =
to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must ap=
ply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased with a t=
ext of application form that i will send to you when i hear from you,so i=
will like you to send to me your private telephone and fax number for ea=
sy and effective communication and location where in the money will be re=
mitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text o=
f the application .
I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction is hitch-free an=
d that you should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangem=
ents 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,
DR ZAGRE YAKO
MANAGER AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT BANK OF AFRICA.
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Bonjour,
Je m'appelle Mr ZAGRE YAKO.
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