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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: "mariam zonko" <mariam.zonko13@gmail.com>
Reply-To: mariam_zonko@hotmail.fr
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:30:42 +0000
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME URGENTLY.
FROM THE DESK OF MRS.MARIAM ZONKO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
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CONFIDENTIAL.*
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Bank Of Africa.(BOA) I am writing following the impressive information
about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your
country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity..... In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$ 27.2m US dollars (Twenty Seven Million Two Hundred Thousand US dollars) .
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in November 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 as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines 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 Eight to Nine years an above, the money will be transferred
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
agree that 30 % 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 incurred during the business and 60 %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 relations 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 no 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,
MRS.MARIAM ZONKO.
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank of Africa.(BOA)
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