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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: "From Mr. Van Kamara" <kamkan2002@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: van_kamara@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:24:42 +0100
Subject: TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL.
Dear sir,
I got your email through internet search. I choose to reach you through it becauseit still remains the fastest,
surest and most secured medium of communication. However, this correspondence is purely private,
and it should be treated as such. I am the AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANAGER OF GHANA
COMMERCIAL BANK (G.C.B) HERE IN
TAKORADI, WESTERN REGION OF GHANA. In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of
US$1.520 M dollars (Three Million One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along with
his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT THIS SITE BELOW:
http://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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased
as indicated in our Banking Ethics and Laws.
But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him in the plane crash
leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery, that I 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. The Banking Laws and Ethics here stipulate that if such money remaines unclaimed
after five and half years, the money will be transferred into the Central Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. And I
don't want that to happen.
Consequently, my proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand as the next of kin to MR.
ANDREAS SCHRANNER so that the fruit of this man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt Government
officials. This is simple, the request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and a GHANAIAN OR CIVIL SERVANT cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn account, 10% should be for expenses,
tax as your government may require, and 60% would be for me. Thereafter, I will visit your country for disbursement according
to the percentage 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 Bank Name, Your Bank Account Number,
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 text of the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice 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.
I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that will protect you from any breach of the law, as this transaction is 100% risk free. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
MR VAN KAMARA
(G.C.B)
TREAT AS URGENT AND CONFIDENCIAL
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