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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: dr_aliu_m444 <dr_aliu_m444@voila.fr>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:59:29 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: VERY URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS REQUEST


FROM :Dr.ALIU MOHAMMED
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B)
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
Dear friend,
I got your email address through a business directory as i was making a search for foreign business partner in the chambers of commerce and industry.I hope that this business request will not cause you any fear because is a very real and fast rewarding transaction besides, it is 100% risk free and no problem is involved either in the long run or in the short run.I am also of the absolute conviction that you will never betray nor disapponit me as i promise never do to you too.
I am the bill and exchange manager in the foreign remittance department
of African Development Bank (A.D.B) I am writing to seek your interest over a transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of seven million five hundred thousand U.S dollars ($ 7 5 00 000) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in November 1998 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 dont 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 sincerely,
Dr.ALIU MOHAMMED
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