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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: usm_ali002@zipmail.com.br
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 08:51:46 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Urgent=20and=20Confidential=2E=2E?=
FROM THE DESK OF MR USMAN ALI,
MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK,
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I hope that this letter will not be a surprise
to you. I got your contact through Yahoo peolle search. My name is USMAN
ALI. I am the manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foriegn Remittance department
of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum
of $20.3 (twenty million three hundred thousand us dollas) in an Account
that belongs to one of our foriegn 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
the ext of kin or a relation to the deceased as ndicated in our banking
uidlines but unfortunately we learnt that all his upposed next of kin elation
died alongside with him at the plane crash eaving nobody behind for the
claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other oficials in my department
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 dont want this money to
go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The Banking law and guidline here stipulate that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
Treasury as unclaimed Bill.The request for a 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 foreigner. We are therefore
soliciting for your assistance to come forward as the next of kin.
We have agreed that 25% of this money will be for you as the beneficiary
in respect of the provision of your Account and services rendered, 65% would
be for me and my collegues while 10% will be for the cause of the transaction.
On completion of everything, and the money is transferred to your Account
from AFRICAN DEV.Bank .... I and the two other colleagues involved in this
transaction will proceed immediately to your country for our own share of
the money.
I expect you to keep this business strictly confidential and secret as you
may wish to know thatwe are Bank officials. Be rest assured that this business
is 100% risk free on both side and every arrangement to transfer this money
to the Account you are going to provid have been concluded provided we
maintain the confidentiality and secrecy involved. Contact me on the E-mail
address:usali3@yahoo.com .
I am looking forward for your prompt response.
Yours sincerely,
usman Ali.
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