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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.Mark Johnson" <markjohnson12005@yahoo.fr>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 18:23:58 +0100 (CET)
Subject: INHERITANCE ASSISTANCE.
FROM THE DESK OF DR.MARK JOHNSON.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
CONTINENTAL BANK BENIN(CBB)
COTONOU,BENIN REPUBLIQUE, WEST AFRICA.
Attn: My Dear,
I am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department Of CONTINENTAL BANK BENIN(CBB). I am writing following the impressive information about you through an internet business proposal.
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of $17.5M, Us dollars (Seventeen Million Five Hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in 30/JANUARY/2000 IN THE PASSENGER PLAN CRASH WITH KENYA AIRWAYS AIRBUS A310-304 5Y-BEN.IN ABIDJAN-COTE D'IVOIRE(IVORY-COAST).
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 somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the decease as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws, but unfortunately I learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at the plane clash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business 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 I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill. The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after Five years, the money will be transferred into the bank treasure as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Beninois cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% will be for me.There after I will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin to the deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account, 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 which you will tender to the bank management for immediate transfer of the money to your account as the next of kin and beneficiary of the deposit. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business 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 on my private line or email mark1johnson@mail2world.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Dr.Mark Johnson.
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