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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: "namu ndive" <namundive04@msn.com>
Reply-To: namundive2001@latinmail.com
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 17:45:21 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGNT
FROM THE DESK OF MR.NDIVE EDWIN IJENDU
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANEGER ,
BANK OF AFRICAN B.O.A
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of auditing and accounting at the foreign remittance
department of BANK OF AFRICAN) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In my
department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$12.5m dollars (TWELVE MILLON
FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our
for eign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died
along with his entire family in Jully 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 guidlings and laws but 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 guidline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into
the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin
in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision
of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the businessand 60% would 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 arranged,you must apply first to
the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of
application that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where in 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 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 receiv this letter.Trusting to hear from you immediately.Yours
Faithfully,
1. Full Name
2. Your Telephone Number and Fax Number
3. Your Contact Address.
MR.NDIVE EDWIN IJENDU
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