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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: "georges ibetego" <geosibe@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: geosibete@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 23:26:43 +0200
Subject: READ WELL & REPLY (MR GEORGES .I )

MR GEORGES IBETEGO
The Manager of Audit and Account Department,
African Development Bank/ A.D.B.
Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso.

Dear Friend,
Please read carefully and call me on ( 0022676689357. )

I hope that you are well today.I am the Manager of Audit and account dept.,of
our bank.So with due respect, i decided to contact you over this business
financial transaction worth the sum of Twenty Nine Million Three Hundred
Thousand United States Dollars ($29,300,000.00 m) in other to entrust this
fund into your bank account.This is an abandoned fund that belongs to the
one of our bank customers who died along with his entire family on 25th
July,2000 in a plane crash disaster. I was very fortune to meet the deceased
file when i was arranging the old and abandoned customers files of 2000-2001
in other to submit to the bank managements accordingly for documentation
purposes. Following our banking financial policy, it was obviously indicated
and signed law fully that if such money remains unclaimed after five years
without somebody been a foreigner apply and claim the fund as the next of
kin , the money will be transferred into the Bank Treasury as an unclaimed
fund. So the request of you as a foreigner is necessarily needed for the
claim because a citizen of Burkina Faso cannot come forward to claim the
fund since the law does not pave a way for an indigene to claim such fund.
Since the real beneficary of the fund died , the bank are expecting the
next of kin to apply for the release of the fund for him or her without
delay but unfortunately i learnt through the investigations which I carried
out that there is nobody behind who can come and claim the fund.Therefore
I want you to apply to the bank with your reliable bank account details
where our bank will transfer the fund into, and immediately the fund is
transferred into your account ,we will share the fund according to the percentage
ratio below.

SIXTY FIVE PERCENT (65%) of the total fund will be for me.TWENTY FIVE PERCENT(
25%) for you in provision of the Bank account.FOUR PERCENT(4%) will be for
unexpected expenses which may occur during the transfer.SIX PERCENT(6%)
will be preserved for helping the helpless people, like charity organization
and motherless babies. Thereafter you will help me to visit your country
for sharing the money according to the percentage indicated above. So for
the immediate transfer of this fund into your bank account as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as the only existing ne
xt of kin to the deceased customer and after approval which will take place
immediately as you applied, the transfer of the fund into your nominated
bank account will proceed. Please note that you should keep this business
secret until you confirm the transfer into the bank account which you will
provide. And there is NO RISK in this business. The bank will forward to
you all necessary documents related to the transfer and which will prove
that you make a legal claim of inheritance.

It is true that i pray to GOD before i was pushed forward to contact you
for this business but i want you to assure me solemnly that you are a trsutwothy,reliable,honest
and capable to avoid cheating me in this business.If you are really sure
of your integerity,reply and call me immediately you receive this mail on
0022676689357 for more detailed information for how the process to transfer
the fund into your account will be.

Yours sincerely,

Mr. Georges Ibetego.



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