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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: "Salif Koume" <salifkoume012@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: salif_koume_012@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 18:24:08 +0000
Subject: PERSONAL/TREAT AS URGENT
FROM THE DESK OF MR SALIF KOUME
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the African Development Bank (ADB).
Burkina Faso West
Africa.
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 12.6 m US dollars
(Twelve Millon six hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
a concord plane crash in the year 2000 in paris that almost took the whole
life of the pasengeres on board.
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 businness
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
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasury
account 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 incured during the business and 60 % would be for ;me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement
accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate
trnansfer 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
Thanks
Yours faithfully
MR SALIF KOUME
Bill and exchange manager,
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