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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: dr_issa2@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 10:24:08 +0000
Subject: URGENT ATTENTION NEEDED
FROM THE DESK OF DR. ISSA IDRIS
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Afircan evelopment Bank. I am writing, following the impressive information
about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in my country.
He assured me of your capability and releability to champion this business
opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$55m US dollars (Fifty
five Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his entire family in November 2001 in a plane
crash.
Since I got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
if 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 uidlines and laws but fortunately we learnt that all his
supposed next of kin or relation died along side 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 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 four 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 40% 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 55% would be for me.
There after I 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 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 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 for
more explanations.
Yours faithfully,
Dr. ISSA IDRIS
Bill & Exchange Manager
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