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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: "zerbo ousmane" <zzerboousmane@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:03:11 +0000
Subject: Top secret, please urgent reply needed
FROM THE DESK ZERBO OUSMANE
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
BANQUE INTERNATIONAL DU BURKINA
OUGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
Dear sir,
Iam the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remmittance department
of Banque Internationale Du Burkina.Iam writing following the impressive
information about you through on of my friends who runs aconsultancy firm
here in Burkina Faso.He assured me of your capability and reliability to
champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US $18.5m dollars(Eigteen
million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foriegn customer who died along with his entirer family in 1999 in a
plane crash on air Senegal on aircraft Name Hawker Siddeley HS-748.This
crash happened in Tambacoumba, Senegal, Africa and the registration number
of the aircraft is 6AV-AEO.
Since i 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 guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at
the plane clash leaving no body 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 relation
to the decease for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is
coming for it and i dont 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 Seven years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasure as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner 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 that30% 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 60% will be for me . There after I
will visit your country for disbursment according to the percentages
indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as arrange,
you must apply first to the bank as relation or next or kin of 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. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this business
is hicth-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.
Yours faithfully,
ZERBO OUSMANE.
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