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Fraud email example:
From: prudentbankafrica tutuya <prudentbankafrica@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 14:08:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: URGENT NEDDED
MR.OGBONNAYA ALBERT
ACCOUNTS AND AUDIT DEPT.
PRUDENT BANK OF AFRICA LOME-TOGO
Dear,
I am Mr Ogbonnaya Albert, the secretary in the office of
the director incharge account and audit dept of
PRUDENT BANK OF AFRICA LOME-TOGO. With due respect and
regards,I have decided to contact you on a mutual
business transaction that will be of great benefit to
both of us.
During the auditing of our bank,it was discovered that
a total sum of 12.5 million US dollars (Twelve
million,Five Hundred Thousand US dollars)was abandoned
in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers Mr.Rashad Alymohd Aly who died in EgyptAir
Flight 990 plane crash of 31st october 1999. No body
was recovered from the crash incident.
This is the website.
www.cnn.com/us/9911/02/egyptair990.list/index.html
Since we got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of Kin to come over and claim his
money because the money cannot be release unless
somebody applies for it as next of Kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial
policies but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed
next of kin or relation died along side with him in
the accident leaving no body behind to claim the
money.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other
officials in my department now decided to make this
business proposal to you and for you to stand as his
next of kin so that the money be tranfferred 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 bills.
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 a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and an indigene cannot stand as next
of kin to the deceased family. I have agreed that 30%
of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will
be set aside for expenses incurred during this
transaction and 65 % 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
must apply first to the Bank as relation 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 e-mail 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 fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me on my e-mail as soon as you
receive this letter.
I decided to contact you as you have products of
interest in your part of the world where we can invest
our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as we
are civil servants. We can conclude this operation
within ten banking days.
Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for
more information, all confirmable before you apply if
you want. May God be with you.
Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed
information which are confirmable before you can make
up your mind to apply.
Mr Ogbonnaya Albert.
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