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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: RICHARD STEPHEN <richstephen06@freenet.de>
Reply-To: richstephen06@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 16:34:54 +0100
Subject: HELLO
FROM THE DESK OF RICHARD STEPHEN
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
ACCRA GHANA
Dear Friend
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department
of African Developent bank(ADB) here in ACCRA GHANA.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$30m dollars in an
account that belonging to one of our foreign customer.Who died along
with
his entire family in Monday, 31 July, 2000 in a plane crash in
paris.Please
visit this site that is one of the evidence the directors
brought in other to swallow the money at the end of the day,
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
unless
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 six 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 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 your desiggnited bank account ,you must apply first to the bank
as a
relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of application
that i
will send to you,so i will like you to send to me 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.
DR.RICHARD STEPHEN
Bill and exchange manager,
African Development bank ADB
EMAIL.richstephen06@yahoo.co.uk
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