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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: bagri_mohd@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:17:47 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?PLEASE=20TREAT=20AS=20URGENT?=
FROM THE DESK OF MR. BAGRI MOHAMMED.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Contact me always at bagri_mohd@hotmail.com
Dear Friend,
COMPLIMENT OF THE SEASON.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA) .
In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$18.5m US dollars (Eighten
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 November
2000 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 a business associate to the deceased
as indicated in our banking guidlines and laws 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 now decided to make this business proposal to you
and release the money to you as the next of kin or a business associate
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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank treasury
as unclaimed fund. The request of foreign as next of kin in this business
is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 20% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 75% would be for me and my Family.
There after I and my Family will visit your country for disbursement according
to the percentages indicated anf for some
possible investment under your kind control.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as a business associate 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 wherein 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. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction
is risk-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
for more explanations.
Yours faithfully,
MR.BAGRI MOHAMMED.
Please contact me always at bagri_mohd@hotmail.com
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