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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: "Ramadan Abdu" <ramadan@dcemail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: ramabdu@gawab.com
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:54:18 +0000
Subject: Treat as urgent & call me now +226-78-81-04-32
FROM THE DESK OF DR. RAMADAN ABDU
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
TEL:00226-78-81-04-32
I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise
but due to the urgency
of this transaction. I am the manager of bill and
exchange at the foreign
remittance department of African Development
bank(ADB).
I am writing to you, following the impressive
information received about
you from the chambers of commerce. I believed that you
are capable and reliable
to champion this business opportunity. In my
department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $30m US dollars (Thirty million 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 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 and other
officials in my department 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 guideline here stipulates that if
such money remained
unclaimed after five 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.
We 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
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 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.
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,
Dr. Ramadan Abdu
Bill and Exchange Manager,
African Development Bank ADB
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