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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: "john marck" <john11marck@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 18:44:49 +0000
Subject: I NEED YOUR URGENT HELP................. FRIEND
DEAR SIR/MADAM,
I AM AN ACCOUNTANT IN THE BILL AND EXCHANGE OF THE FOREIGN REMITTANCE
DEPARTMENT OF BANQUE TOGOLAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT.
I am writing you, following the impressive information about your profile
through the Togolaise Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Therefore, I
believed that you shall posess the capability and reliability to champion
this opportunity with me.
In my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of 14 million US dollars
(Fourteen million US dollars), in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in September,1997 in
a plane crash. Since we got the urgly information about his death, we have
been expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his money because we
can not release it unless somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but
unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died along
side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the money.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and a partner 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 bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during this transaction and 75 % would be for me and my
colleagues.Thereafter, I and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentages indicated. To enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you as arranged above, you must apply first to the
Bank as the relation or next of kin to the deceased indicating your private
telephone and fax numbers for easy and effective communication and location
where the money will be remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to
you by fax or e-mail 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 on my
private e-mail :john11marck@hotmail.com as soon as you receive this letter.
I decided to contact you as we have products of interest in your part of the
world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as
we are civil servants. With your acceptance and cooperation, we can conclude
this operation within ten working days. Please keep this very confidential.
May God be with you.
Yours faithfully,
John Marck
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