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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: afaso@zipmail.com.br
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:08:21 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?URGENT?=
BILL AND EXCAHNGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK GROUP.
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am the Manager of Bill and Exchange at the Foreign Remittance Department
of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$40.5m US dollars
(Fourty 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
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 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.
Your should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
you can also contact me through this Alternative email adress afaso201_com
@yahoo.com Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
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