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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: "madam salifatuo B.abdulla" <madam_buoba2@msn.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 13:42:11 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY SIR, PLZ REPLY ME SOONEST
FROM THE DESK OF MADAM SALIFATUO B.ABDULLAH
SECRETARY TO THE MANAGER BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPT.
SOCIETY GENERAL BANK OF BURKINA.
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO
Dear friend,
I am a staff of the bill and exchange department of
the foreign remittance
department of The Society General Bank of Burkina .
I am writing, following your address which i got
through international network
information when i was searching for a sure email
contact because of the
urgency of this transaction. And i hope of your
releability to champion
this business opportunity with me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of
U.S$20.5m US dollars
(Twenty Million, five hundrd thousand US dollars
only.) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his entire family
on Monday, 31 July, 2000,in a plane crash.
ttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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 guidlines and laws 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 based upon this discovery that I now decided
to make this business
proposal to you so that you can apply for the
release of the money to you
as
the next of kin or relation to the deceased for
safety and subsequent isbursement
since nobody is coming for it and we don't want this
money to go into the
bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned
by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a
Burkinabe cannot stand
as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agreed that 30% of this money will be for you as
a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10%
will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 60% would
be for me. There after
I 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 the relation 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
wherein 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 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 for
more explanations.
Yours faithfully
MADAM SALIFATUO B.ABDULLA
(Secretary Bill and Exchange Department)
_________________________________________________________________
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