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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: "ali musa" <ali_2musa@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 13:11:46 +0000
Subject: My Request
FROM THE DESK OF DR ALI MUSA.
FILE AND COMPUTER DEPT,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK -ADB
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
call me on(00226-78849444)
PLEASE ATTENTION.
Dear Friend,
How are you,first i will explain my self little to you before we continue.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)I am writing to seek your interest over a
transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $15m US dollars (FIFTEEN
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.
Your’s faithfully,
DR.Ali Musa.
BIll and exchange manager,
Africa development bank (A.D.B)
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