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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: "ali kalomah" <alikalomah@msn.com>
Reply-To: alikalomah2@i12.com
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 10:11:01 +0000
Subject: next of kin
FROM THE DESK OF MR ALI KALOMAH
ACCOUNTANT OF ECO BANK OF NIGERIAL PLC
Dear Friend,
I am an accountant of ECO BANK OF NIGERIA PLC. at foreign remittance
department. There is a business I would want you to champion for me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of ($45,000,000.00 U.S)
forty five million 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 it 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's 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 dont want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed by 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 of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burnable cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 50% of this money will be for you
as foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account,while
5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 45 %
would be for me.
There after I 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.
All modalities of this transaction have been carefully worked out and once
started will not take more than TEN (10) working days, with your full
support. this transaction is 100% risk free. It involves no any implication
and no any precaution there after.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
application which you will fill and send to the bank for immediate claim. 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,
ALI KALOMAH
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