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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: adamu_attah1@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 14:37:08 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?TREAT=20AS=20URGENT=20AND=20CONFIDENTIAL=2E?=
FROM THE DESK OF MR.ADAMU ATTAHA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager bill and exchange at AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB) foreign remittance department .
There is a business I would want you to champion for me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $22.6MUSD dollars (Twenty
two million and two 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 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 in the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I 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 guidelines here stipulates that if
such money remained unclamed after four years, the
money will be transfered 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. I 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 . Thereafter I 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.
Yours faithfully
MR.ADAM ATTAHA
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