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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: "George Tume" <george_tuma@ablewise.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: george_tuma1@virgilio.it
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 21:55:02 +0200
Subject: FROM:DR.GEORGE TUMA.
FROM THE DESK OF DR.GEORGE TUMA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONALE DU ABIDJAN
ABIDJAN, COTE D,IVOIRE
Dear One,
In good faith and with due respect and humility, I
write to you this proposal.I am the manager of the
bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Banque Internationale du Abidjan .
I got your contact from the international directory of
the ivoriene chambers of commerce and industry.I am of
know of your capability and reliability to champion
this business opportunity.
In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of
U.S$18.5m Eighteen 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 1999 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 relations died alongside with
him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claims.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided
to make this businness proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin to the deceased.it
will be safely transfered to your nominated account
and subsequently the funds will be disbursed
accordingly to each parties involved in the
transaction since nobody is coming forth and i don't
want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.
According to our Banking policies and guideline
here,It stipulates that if such funds remained
unclaimed after SIX 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 an ivoireine like me
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30 % of this money will be for you as a
foreign partner, In respect to the provision of a
foreign account, 10 % will be for reimbursement of any
expenses incured during the curse of the transaction
and 60 % would be for me. Therefore to enable the
immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as next of
kin to 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 positive response, I will send to
you by email the text of the application, I will also
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 modalities and
arrangements have been made for the transfer of the
fund with immediate effect.
Please call me as you receive this mail on my private
allocated telephone Number 0022-507-513-183.
Trusting to hear from you immediately
Your's faithfully,
DR.GEORGE TUMA.
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