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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: "Mr.Aku Bia." <akubia@voila.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 10:11:56 +0200
Subject: Honest Person Required.
Bank Of Africa
Africa House
Benin Republiqic.
ATTENTION DEAR, CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE
I belive this will come to you as a surprise but after going through you
will understand why i contacted you, i decided to contact you base that
you will be honest with me for this urgent transaction which is 100%risk
free I am the Manager of Bill and Exchange of the foreign operation
department of Bank Of Africa Cotonou Republic-Du-Benin.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ($10.8Million Dollars
Ten Million Eight Hundred thousand United States DollarsOnly) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died in
November 2001 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 it as Next of
Kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines
unfortunately we learn that all his supposed Next of Kin or relations
died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody with the knowledge
of this funds behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other senior
officials in the department now decided to make business with you since
the man is from your country so that we can release the money to you as
the Next of Kin or a relation of the deceased for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don1 twant
this money to go back into Federal Government Account as Unclaimed
Bill.
The Banking Law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years the money would be transferred into
the Banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as Next of Kin in this business is occasioned
by the fact that the customer was foreigner and a Benin cannot stand as
a Next of Kin to a foreigner We agreed that 25% percent Negotiable of
this money will be for you as foreign partnerThereafter my two other
colleagues and I will visit your country for the disbursement according
to the percentages indicated Please be honest to me Therefore to enable
the immediate transferof the fund to you as arranged you must apply
first to the Bank as relation or Next of Kin of the deceased
Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the Text of the
Application with the Name of the Deceased and his country and other
information about him.
Note This transaction is confidential Frisk free As soon as you receive
this mail you should contact me at once through the stated confidential
mail address :akubia37@hotmail.com
Thanks Trusting to hear from you immediately
Yours sincerely
Mr Aku Bia.
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