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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: "Dr.Danta Karim" <dr.dantakarim1000@gmail.com>
Reply-To: dr.dantakarim@yahoo.fr
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:17:41 +0100
Subject: FROM. Dr. Danta Karim(Please Assist)PC
FROM. Dr. Danta Karim(Please Assist)PC
Manager General Audit Dept
Group Bank Of Africa Plc.(BOA)
Ouagadougou Burkina Faso.
Dear Friend,
I know that this mail will come to you as a surprise. I am the General
Manager, Audit department in Group Bank of Africa Plc .I Hope that you will
not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to Repose on
you for the mutual benefit of our both families.
I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $29.856 million
Immediately to your account. The money has been dormant for years in our
Bank here without any body coming for it.
I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased
customer(the owner Of the account) who died a long with his supposed next of
kin in an air Crash since July 2000.
I don't want the money to go into our Bank treasury as an abandoned fund. So
this is the reason why i contacted you, so that the bank can release the
money to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Please i will like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete if
you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send you full
details on how the
Business will be executed and also note that you will have 40% of the Above
mentioned sum. Acknowledge receipt of this message in acceptance of my
mutual business endeavour by furnishing me with the following:
1. Your Full Names and Address.
2. Direct Telephone and Fax numbers
3. Account Informations.
Yours Sincerely
Dr. Danta Karim
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