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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: usmankamal7@zipmail.com.br
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:32:23 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Check=20up=20on=20this=20proposal=20and=20call=20on=2000226/70233974=2E?=
FROM THE DESK OF:
DR. KAMAL USMAN,
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU ANNEX,
BURKINA FASO.
My Dear friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of African Development Bank here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15.2m US dollars (Fifteen
million two hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November
2002 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 some body 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 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 fours years, the money will be transferred 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. I agree that 30%
of this money will be for you as a 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 Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to you 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 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. Trusting to hear from
you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Kamal Usman.
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