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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: plakook@zipmail.com.br
Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 07:52:54 -0800
Subject: Treat this matter urgently...Reply
From the desk of DR PLAKOO KOUKU
Senior Staff in File Department,
Banque Togolaise pour le Commerce et l'industrie
LOME TOGO West Africa.
PLANE CRASH WEB SITE...http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
( "REMITTANCE OF $15 MILLION U.S.A DOLLARS CONFIDENTIAL IS THE CASE")
Dear Friend,
I am (DR PLAKOO KOUKU), a senior staff in file department in Banque Togolaise
pour le Commerce et l'industrie (BTCI).I got your contact from a tourist
from your country who was in this country and transacted a business with
our bank.
When i was searching for a foreign partner i assured of your capability
and reliability to champion this business opportunity when i prayed to God
or Allah about you. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
$ 15 million U.S.A dollars ( fifteen million U.S.A dollars) .
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in a plane crash on 31st of July 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, 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 one official 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 transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner, and a Togolaise cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We
agree that 30 % 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
incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleague.
There after I and my colleague 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 relations 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 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. pls try to reply me through this drplakoo@hotmail.com
Yours faithfully,
DR.PLAKOO KOUKU.
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