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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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From: "John Ogugua" <johnoguguagrand@msn.com>
Reply-To: johnoguguagrand1@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 23:02:52 +0000
Subject: Urgent Proposal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
GRAND BANK OF AFRICA (GBA)
MARINA LAGOS.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
GRAND BANK OF AFRICA (GBA)here in MARINA LAGOS NIGERIA.In my department
we discovered an abandoned sum ofUS$36million. in an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who
died along with his entire family
in July 2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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 itun less
some body applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceasedas 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 unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after fours years, the money willbe 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 aforeigner.
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 asidefor expenses incurred during the
business and 60% would be for me
Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicatedTherefore, 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 indicating 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 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,
John Ogugua
GRAND BANK OF AFRICA (GBA)
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