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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: sankara_frank@zipmail.com.br
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:29:09 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?FROM=3A=20MR=2E=20SANKARA=20=20FRANK?=
FROM: MR. SANKARA FRANK
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE D'ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE.
ATTN: Director,
With due respect and huminity, I write to you this
proposal.I am the manager of bill and exchange at the
foreign remittance department of Banque Internationale
d'Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive
information about you through my research in internet
search.In my department, we discovered an abandoned
sum of U.S$18.5m USdollars (Eighteen million, five hundred thousand US dollars)
. In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in november 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward 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 and
policies but unfortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died along side with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claims.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials in my department now decided to make this
businness 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 forth and we dont want this money to go into
the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
According to our Banking policies and guideline here
which stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed
after five years, the money will automatically be
transfered 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 15 % of this money will be for you as
foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 5 % will be for reimbursement of any
expenses incured during the curse of the transaction
and 80 % 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 trnansfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the
bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating your bank name, your bank account number,
your private telephone and fax number for easier and
effective communication and location where 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 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.
Yours faithfully,
MR. SANKARA FRANK
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN.
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