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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?tony=20wisdom?= <t3_wisdom@yahoo.fr>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:18:51 +0100 (CET)
Subject: PLEASE HELP ME
FROM: DR TONY WISDOM
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE DE L'AFRIQUE(BANK OF AFRICA).
ABIDJAN(COTE D'IVOIRE)
Dear Sir,
With due respect and huminity, I write to you this
proposal.I am the manager of bill and exchange at the
foreign remittance department of Banque de l'afrque
d'Abidjan . I am writing following the impressive
information about you through my research in internet
search.In my department, we discovered an abandoned
sum of U.S$10.5m USdollars (ten million, five hundred
thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his
entire family in november 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward 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 and policies but
unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of
kin
or relation died along side with him at the plane
crash
leaving nobody behind for the claims. It is therefore
upon
this discovery that I and other officials in my
department
now decided to make this businness 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 forth and we dont want this money to
go
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
According to our Banking policies and guideline here
which
stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after
five
years, the money will automatically be transfered 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.
We agree that 15 % of this money will be for you as
foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign
account,
5 % will be for reimbursement of any expenses incured
during the curse of the transaction and 80 % would be
for
me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues
will
visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer 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 easier and effective communication
and
location where 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 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,
FROM: DR TONY WISDOM BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
BANQUE DE L'AFRIQUE(BANK OF AFRICA).
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