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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: "ABU" <isimalaabu1@katamail.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: isimala_abu@excite.com
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:19:24 +0200
Subject: This letter may come to you as a surprise
Dear Friend,
This letter may come to you as a surprise, However let me briefly Introduce myself to you,
I am Isimala Abu the head of Account and Audit Department of Bank Of Africa,in Burkina Faso.
I just want to share a mutual Business relationship with you which will
benefit both of us at the end of it.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars(Ten
million, five hundred thousand US dollars)In an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customer who died a long with his entire family in 16 Febuary 1998
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 becausewe 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 other officials 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 four 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
Burkina be 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 colleagues.
There after I and my colleagues 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 will apply first to the bank as relations or next of kin of the deceased
indicating 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 a text of the
application you will use to apply to the bank. 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.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Isimala Abu.
TELEPHONE:+226 76563239
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