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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: "zongo watara" <zongo_watara5@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:49:28 +0000
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT
FROM THE DESK OF ZONGO WATAR
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
sir,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK . I am writing to seek your coperation over a
business deal.
Dear In my departmentn I discovered an abandoned sum of$10 million
USD(TEN million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of
ourforeign customar who died along with his entire family in november 1999
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 it cannot
be released unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately , 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
thisdiscovery that I now decided to makethis businness proposal to you and
release the money to you via your foreign bank account as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody
is coming for it and this money Could go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remainedunclamed after four years, the money will betransfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.The request for your assistance and maximum
co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a
foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
30 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, inrespect to the
provision of a foreign account. 10 %will be set aside for expences incured
during the business and 60 % would be for me.There after I will come over to
your country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer of this fund to you as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as the relation or next of kin to
the deceased,indicating your claims and wherein the money will be remitted .
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application which you will fill and submit to the office of the foreign
remittance director of the bank of africa. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is stricly confidential and i will use my
position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your’s faithfully,
MR .ZONGO WATARA
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