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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: "ahmad yeye" <ahmad_yeye@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 10:45:44 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF AHMAD YEYE
FROM THE DESK OF AHMAD YEYE ,
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO
DEAR FRIEND,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remmittance
departmentof Africa Development Bank.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US $10.5m dollars(Twenty
million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foriegn customer who died along with his entirer family inJuly 2000
in plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next
of kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the decease as
indicated in our banking guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him at
the plane clash leaving no body behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I decided to make this business proposal to you and
release the money to you as the nextof kin or relation to the decease for
safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont
want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasure as unclaimed fund. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this businessis occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
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 incurred
during the business and 60% will be for me There after I and my collegues
will visit your country fordisbursment according to the percentages
indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as
arrange,you must apply first to the bank as relation or next or kin of the
deceased indicating your bank name, your bank account, your private
telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, i will send to you by fax or email the textof
the application. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
businessis hicth-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,
manager, Bill and exchange.
AHMAD YEYE
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK, BURKINA FASO
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