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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: "kruma watara" <krumaw@aol.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: kruma123@gmail.com
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:20:22 +0700
Subject: urgent asistance
Dear Friend,
I apologize if the contents in this mail are contrary to your moral
ethics, which I feel may be of great disturbance to your personal life,
But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I pray that this email
reaches you in the best of health.
I am Mr Kruma WATARA, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department Bank Of Africa.
In my department we discoveredan abandoned sum of US$14.5M (fourteen
million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in the 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 guide lines and
lawsbut 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 guidelines here stipulates that if such money
remained
unclaimed after six 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 Burkina cannot
stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 45% of this money will be for you as respect to the
provision of a foreign account , 5% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the business and 50% 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 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 easy and effective
communication and location where the money will be transfer.
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 mail,
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully.
Mr Kruma WATARA,
N/B: CALL ME AS SOON AS YOU RECEIVE THIS MAIL OR WRITE EMAIL,
E-MAIL: kruma123@gmail.com
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