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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. Salif Mamadoo." <salifmamadoo4875@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: salifmamadoo@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:51:50 +0000
Subject: good day
Dear Friend,
I am pleased to introduce a business opportunity to
you to transfer to your overseas account a huge amount
of money deposited in one of the Prime Banks here in
Dakar-Senegal. I urgently want to know you and if you
are capable of handling and accomodate this magnitude
of funds until I resign and come over to join you for
an investment in your country. What I need is a
reliable and honest individual/organisation that would
be capable and fit enough to provide either an
existing bank account or set up a new Bank Account
immediately to receive this funds. Even an empty bank
account can serve to receive this funds as long as you
will remain honest to me till we actualise this
interest.
My name is Dr. Salif Mamadou, the Director of Bill and
Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department of the
same bank. I am writing following the impressive
information about you through one of my friends who
runs a consultancy firm. He assured me of your
capability and reliability to champion this business
opportunity.
In my department we discovered an abandoned Sum of
$18.5M USD Eighteen Million, Five Hundred Thousand US
Dollars), in an account that belongs to one of our
foreign customers an American by name: Mr.Neal Walker
who died along with other passengers in EgyptAir
Flight 990 - October 31, 1999. Please do view this
very site for more nformation about our deceased
client: www.greatdreams.com/PassEAir990.htm. 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 and the person must be foreigner as indicated
in our banking guidelines. Futher investigation, we
discovered that the owner of the account died without
a [Heir/WILL] hence the money is floating and if I do
not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials in bank now decided to make this businness
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 do not want this money to go into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law and
guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be
transfered into the Bank treasury account 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 I can not stand as next of kin to
a foreigner,it is also against our the banking law,
guideline and ethics of banks here in my country. We
have agreed that 20 % 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
incured during the business and 70 % 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 requested to provide the following:
Your full name and address, Your direct telephone and
fax number and your bank information. All the
requested information will enable me perfect all the
necessary things in your favour for smooth transfer of
the fund into you account as you will provide.
If you are interested, please contact me via my email
address:................com and also call me on my
telephone for more details: 00221 523 0013. Upon your
response, I shall provide you with more details on how
we shall proceed with the claims. I expect you to
observe utmost confidentiality and be rest assured
that this transaction would be profitable for both of
us without any risk involved.
Awaiting your urgent reply.
Thanks & Regards.
Dr. Salif Mamadoo.
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