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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: cosmasmensah@zipmail.com.br
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 10:49:31 +0000
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?CONFIDENTIAL=20BUSINESS?=
FROM: MR COSMAS MENSAH.
MANAGER AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING UNIT.
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK OF GHANA (ICB)
ACCRA GHANA.
My Friend,
I am pleased to write you this letter base on the confidence I have for
you. I am Mr.Cosmas Mensah. Manager auditing and accounting unit International
Commercial bank (ICB) here in Accra, Ghana. In my department we discovered
an abandoned huge amount of money, which resulted to the sum of (US$8,500.000),
after several investigation was carried we discovered that account belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
Monday, 31 July 2000 in a plane crash in Paris? Please I will like you to
go through this site that is one of the evidence the directors brought in
other to swallow the money at the end of the day,http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/.
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 non of his relatives
has been found although i have several enquiries in different embassies
here in Ghana but to no avail. So after all this unsuccessful attempt I
now decided to have you presented as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill. The banking laws and guidelines 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 of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and not a Ghanaian so a Ghanaian
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I have 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 that will incurred during the business
and 60% would be for me there after, I will visit your country for disbursement
according to the percentage indicated, therefore to enable the immediate
transfer of this fund to your designated bank account, you must apply first
to the bank as a relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of
application that I will send to you, so i will like you to send to me your
private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your response, 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.
Faithfully,
Mr.Cosmas Mensah
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