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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: "umoru sule" <umorusule@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:08:17 +0000
Subject: confidential & urgent
FROM: MR UMORU SULE.
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A),
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA-FASO.
My name is MR. UMORU SULE, I am the bill and exchange Manager of bank of
africa (B.O.A) ,Ouagadouguo Burkina Faso. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $10.5m ( ten million five hundred thousand us dollars ).
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his wife and children in a plane crash in (NOVEMBE,2000 ) plane crash
happened in Cote d'Ivoire.(Kenya Air ays)
Since we got information about his death, the bank 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 the 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 in the
plane crash 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 next of kin or relation to
the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming
for it and I don't want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
Bill.
The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that if such money remains
unclaimed after (5) FIVE years , the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner in this transaction is necessary because our late
customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner. I have agreed 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,
after which I shall visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as i
arranged, you will furnished me with a good receving account detail where
the money will be transfered, your private tel and fax number for easy
communication.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail a text of
the application which you shall retype and fax to our foreign remittance
director, for easy execution of the transaction.
I will not fail to bring to your notice that this transaction is 100%
hitch-free on both side. As all required arrangement have been made for the
transfer.
Please I would like you to keep this transaction confidential and as a top
secret as you may wish to know that I am a Bank official.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
UMORU SULE
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