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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: "bouba musa" <boubamusa_802@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 12:26:47 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT
FROM THE DESK OF MR BOUBA MUSA,
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am BOUBA MUSA, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance
department of BANK OF AFRICA, I am writing following the
impressive information about you through one of my friends who works in
the ministry of chamber of commerce . He assured me of your capability and
reliability to champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 10.5m US dollars(ten
Million, five hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
November 1997 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
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 six 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,
MR BOUBA MUSA,
BANK OF AFRICA .
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