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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: "dr ahmed" <dr_ahmed055@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 07:24:40 +0000
Subject: URGENTRESPOND NEEDED!!!!!!!!!!
FROM THE DESK OF DR.AHMED.
BILL AND EXCHANGE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA ( BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,
Dear friend,
Compliments,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of BANK OF AFRICA.I am writting to seek your coperation over this business
deal. In my department, I discovered an abandoned sum of$USD$14m(fourtheen
millionunited states dollars).only, in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane crash
that took place in Kenya,
East Africa,the Late DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY,a citizen of Atlanta,United
States of America but naturalised in Burkinafaso,West Africa and contractor
with ECOWAS,(ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN
STATES) .Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be
released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , 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 now decided to makethis businness proposal to you and release the
money to you via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or relation to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and this money Could go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remainedunclamed after four years, the money will betransfered into the
Banktreasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was aforeigner
and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during the business and 50 % would be for me.There after I will come over to
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 the relation or next of
kin tothe deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money will be
remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
ofapplication which you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign
remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not fail to bring to
yournotice that this transaction is stricly confidential and i will use my
position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Please , visit the website below for more informations about the Plane Crash
and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late DR. GEORGE
BRUMLEY.
Your’s faithfully,
DR AHMED.
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