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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: "babiya chiia" <babiya_ch12@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 11:39:06 +0000
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL.
FROM THE DESK OF MR BABIYA CHIIA.
MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
Dear ,
I hope that this letter will not be a surprise to you. I got your contact
through your profile. My name is MR BABIYA CHIIA.. I am the manager of Bill
and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance department of BANK OF AFRICA . In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of $20.3 (twenty million three
hundred thousand us dollars) in an Account that belongs to one of our
foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 2000 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 the next of kin or a relation
to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we
learnt that all his supposed next of kin relation died alongside with him at
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and one of my boy in my
department decided to make this business proposal to you so that the bank
can 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 stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
Treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The request for a 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 foreigner. We are therefore soliciting for your assistance to
come forward as the next of kin. We have agreed that 15% of this money will
be for you as the beneficiary in respect of the provision of your Account
and services rendered. 75% would be for me and my colleague while 10% will
be for expenses incurred during the cause of the transaction.
On completion of everything, and the money is transferred to your Account
from BANK OF AFRICA .
I and my other colleagues involved in this transaction will proceed
immediately to your country for our own share of the money. I expect you to
keep this business strictly confidential and secret as you may wish to know
that we are Bank officials.
Be rest assured that this business is 100% risk free on both side and every
arrangement to transfer this money to the Account you are going to provide
have been concluded provided we maintain the confidentiality and secrecy
involved.
Please contact me on <babiya_chiia01@yahoo.com> Or through the same E-mail
address.
I am looking forward for your prompt response.
Yours sincerely,
MR BABIYA CHIIA.
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