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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@zipmail.com.br> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:42:06 +0100
Subject: Dear Egbert, pls call me.
Bank Of Africa Sarl
Bank Of Africa House
560 Adjololo Cotonou
Benin Republiqic
Tel:+229-58713
E-Mail:akub@email.com
ATTN: Egbert CONFIDENTIAL PLEASE
Dear,After going through web site, i decided to contact you
base 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 $25.8Million Dollars(Twenty Five Million, Eight Hundred thousand United States Dollars Only)in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died in December 2003 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 from your country 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 dont 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 three 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 above stated confidential, E-mail address.Also feel free to visit the web site of accident.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/world/africa/12/2/benin.crash/index.html
Thanks, Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours sincerely
Dr Aku Bia +229-587-13
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