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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: "mikel joseph08" <mikel_joseph08@klikni.cz>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 17:55:41 +0100
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
MR MIKEL JOSEPH
MANAGER, DEPT.OF FILE AND COMPUTER.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO, WEST AFRICA
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
ATTENTION:
I am the manager in file and computer department of BANK OF AFRICA I got
your contact through international business inquiry as i was desperately
searching for a honest foreigner who will help me receive this abandoned
money in his account.
In my department i discovered a file of unclaimed fund of $12.250m US
dollars (TWELVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US
DOLLARS). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who
died along with his entire family in plane crash 2000.
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 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 I don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury
aunclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transfer 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60% 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.
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. Once more, i assure you that nobody will
ask of this fund after the fund has successfully been transferred to your
account and i will not forget to tell you that every information regarding
to
the deceased customer including the information
backing his account are all intact with me, so you should be rest assured
that i have done my home work very well before contacting you.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr MIKEL JOSEPH
Manager, of file and computer dept.
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA
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