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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: "yahaya abdul abdul" <yahayaabdul@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: yahaya_abdul2003@yahoo.ca
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 14:43:29 +0000
Subject: WAITING FOR YOUR RESPOND
Dear
I Am Mr yahaya Abdul the manager of bill and exchange
at the foreign remittance Department Bank Of Africa. In my
Department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$14.5M (fourhteen million
five
hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his 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 some body applies for it as next of kin
or
relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and laws
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 guidelines here stipulates that
if such money remained unclaimed after four years, 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.
I agree that 25% of this money will be for you as respect to the provision
of a foreign account , 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the
business and 70% 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 you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or nex 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 the money will be transfer.
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 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 mail,
Trusting to hear from you immediately Yours faithfully.
Mr yahaya Abdul
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