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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: haryboma@webmail.co.za
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 17:17:55 +0200
Subject: ASKING FOR ASSISTANCE
FROM THE DESK OF MR HARY BOMA
ABSA BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA
TEL: +27839567544
Email: haryboma@webmail.co.za
Email: haryboma@yahoo.com
ATTN: PRESIDENT/CEO
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. HARY BOMA, the manager bills/exchange at the foreign remittance department in ABSA BANK LIMITED .In my department, we discovered an abandon sum of US$12,000,000.00 (twelve million united states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family on Nov 1994 in a ghastly plane crash Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over to claim his money because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as his next of kin, or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guideline. But unfortunately, nobody has come forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department whom am restricted to mention their names depending, on your response to this matter have decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by contacting you first through media. We want to furnish you with the whole
information about the deceased so that the bank can remit this money into your nominated account.
Moreover, we do not want this money to go into the government account as an unclaimed bill as usual. Because the banking law here stipulates that any account that is been abandoned or dormant for a period of years, is deemed closed and all the money therein will be forfeited to the government
treasury account.
Now, it is being stipulated that the above sum will be transferred into the government account as an unclaimed fund as soon as possible. The reason for requesting you to present yourself as the next of kin is occasioned by the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner. The mode of sharing after transferring of this fund into your nominated account is: 60% for my colleagues and I, 30% of the total sum will be for you for the role you will play for this transaction, 10% will be for expenses that we might encounter at the course of transaction. Therefore we are expecting to hear from you, indicating your willingness so that we will furnish you with the whole information regarding to this transaction and the
exact steps to follow.
I await your reply through Tel: +27839567544 or email address: (haryboma@webmail.co.za or haryboma@yahoo.com) to enable us to conclude this transaction urgently. Please keep this letter very confidential for security reason because of the sensitive position of the personalities involved in this transaction.
Regard
Mr. HARY BOMA
(MANAGER BILLS/EXCHANGE CONTROL
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