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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: "Mr. Aku Bia" <aku_bia@latinmail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 16:28:55 +0100
Subject: Dear,Pls Reply Urgently.
Bank Of Africa Sarl
Bank Of Africa House
Bill and Exchange Department
Benin Republiqic Cotonou
Tel:00229-587613
ATTN: CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE
Dear Freind,
Dear,I decided to contact youbase that you will be honest with me for this
urgent transaction which is 100%risk free.I am the Manager of Bill and
Exchange of the foreign operation department of Bank Of Africa Sarl Cotonou Republic-Du- Benin.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $20.8Million
Dollars(Twenty Million, Eight Hundred thousand United States
Dollars Only) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
who died in November 2001 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,unfortunately we learn that all his supposed Next of
Kin or relations died along with him at the plane crash leaving nobody
with the knowledge of this funds behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and two other senior
officials in the department now decided to make business with you since
the man is foreigner so that we can release the money to you as
the Next of Kin or a relation of the deceased for safety keeping and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we don't want
this money to go back into Federal Government Account as Unclaimed
Bill.
The Banking Law and guidelines here stipulated that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years the money would be transferred into
the Banking treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of a foreigner as Next of Kin in this business is
occasioned by the fact that the customer was foreigner and a Benin cannot
stand as a Next of Kin to a foreigner.We agreed that 25% percent (Negotiable)
of this money will be for you as foreign partner.Thereafter my two other
colleagues and I will visit your country for the disbursement according
to the percentages indicated. Please be honest to me. Therefore, to
enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arranged you must
apply first to the Bank as relation or Next of Kin of the deceased.
Upon receipt of your reply I will send to you the "Text of the
Application" with the Name of the Deceased and his country and other
information about him.
Note: This transaction is confidential/risk free. As soon as you
receive this mail, you should contact me at once through the stated
confidential address:aku_bia88@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks, Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours sincerely
Mr.Aku Bia.
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