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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: "SANDRA WILLIAMS" <sandraci86@yahoo.fr> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 15:50:22 +0000
Subject: Attention.
FROM THE DESK OF MRS SANDRA WILLIAMS.
THE ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR OF
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK(ANNEXE)
COTE D'VIOIRE (ABIDJAN).TEL:+22507065657.
My Dear,
I am the THE ACCOUNT SUPERVISOR of AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
ANNEXE,COTE D'VIOIRE (ABIDJAN). In my department I discovered an abandoned
sum of $10.200.000US Dollars (Ten million, 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 1998 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 can not release it
unless some body 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 at the
plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposals to you and release
the money to you as 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
here stipulates that if such money remains unclaimed after five years, the
money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our
client was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign
partner, in respect to this provision of a foreign account 10% will be set
aside for expenses that you may incurre in the cause of this transaction
while 60% will be for me and my only colleague, after which we shall visit
your country for disbursement according to the percentage dictated above.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arrange,
you must apply first to the bank, and send your account number, your
private telephone and fax number for easy and affective Communication and
location where the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or E- mail the text
of the application Form. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is risk-free as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter
through this ternative email below: sandraci86@yahoo.fr, for security
reasons.
Regards,
MRS SANDRA WILLIAMS.
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