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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: "Fuma Ingram" <fumaing71@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:53:17 +0200
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT
DR.FUMA INGRAM
BILLS AND EXCAHNGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Sir,
I am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department
of BANK OF AFRICA Burkina Faso. I am writing following the impressive
information about you i got through internet business enquiry. He assured me
of your capability and reliability to champion this business opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$25.5m US dollars
(Twenty Five 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 Novermber,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 relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines 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 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 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 transfered 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
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We have resolved that 15% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,
in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 80% 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 relation 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, 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.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.Reply to my alternative mail:
(fumaing@zwallet.com).
Yours faithfully,
DR.FUMA INGRAM
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