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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: "Issah Abdoul" <issa_abdoul@tiscali.co.uk>
Reply-To: dr_issah_abdoul@dr.com
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:16:00 +0100
Subject: My Message,Urgent Reply Needed.
From: The Desk Of Dr Issah Abdoul.
Bill And Exchange Manager
International Bank Of Africa (IBA)
Cotonou Benin Republic.
Email:dr_issah_abdoul@dr.com
Tel:00229 56 71 51.
Dear Friend,
(Assure me your Readiness)
I am Dr Issa Abdoul the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
Department of International Bank Of Africa (IBA) I am writing to seek your
intrest over a transaction. In my department we discovered an abandoned
sum of $7.6M (Seven Million, Six Hundred Thousand Dollars). In an account
that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire
family in November 1999 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 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 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 dont 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 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 Benin Indigine cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner. We 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 incurred during the business and 60
% would be for me and my colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues 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 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 or your telephone call, 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. Pls do call 00229 56 71 51.
Yours faithfully,
Dr Issa Abdoul.
00229 56 71 51.
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