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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: "Mr David Kamama" <davidbam@di-ve.com> (may be fake)
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 01:01:48 +0000
Subject: Waiting for your response.
Dear friend
I am Mr.David Kamama,senior manager accounts/audit department, BARCLAYS
BANK OF GHANA. DR. GEORGE BRUMLEY, who was a contractor with mining
coperatin of ghana and a personal friend died and
left behind his deposit in this bank (BARCLAYS BANK OF GHANA) valued
USD
$22,723,822.90.
I am writing to seek your cooperation over this business deal. In my
department, I discovered an abandoned sum of USD $22,723,822.90.,
(Twenty Two Million,seven hundred and twenty three thousand eight hundred and
twenty-two dollars,ninety cents) only , in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family in a plane
crash that took place in Kenya, East Africa, the Late DR. GEORGEBRUMLEY,
a citizen of Atlanta, United States of America but resident here in
Ghana, West Africa and a physician.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his money because it cannot be released
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately, all his supposed
next of kin or relation died alongside with him at the plane crashleaving
nobody behind to claim the money.
therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you via your foreign bank
account as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and this money
Could
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 for your assistance
and
maximum co-operation as a foreign citizen to stand as the next of kin
in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the deceased customer was a foreigner.
40 % of this money will be for you as my foreign partner, in respect to
the provision of a foreign account. and 60 % would be for me. There after I
will come over to 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 to
the deceased, indicating your claims and where the money will be remitted into.
Upon receipt of your respose indicating your willingness to work with
me, I will send to you by fax or email the contact information of my bank
manager which you will use to submit the application and I will direct you
on how to do that. I will not fail to bring to your notice that this
transaction is strictly confidential and I will use my position in this Bank
to effect a hitch free transfer of the fund and that is to say I guarantee
that this transaction will be executed under a legitimate arrangement that
will protect you and I from any breach of the law.
Please get in touch with me through my email and send to me your full
name telephone and fax numbers to enable us discuss further about this
transaction.
You can visit the website below for more information about the Plane
Crash and the tragic death of the deceased and his entire family, Late
DR.
GEORGE
BRUMLEY.http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Awaiting your urgent reply
Thanks and my regards
Mr.David Kamama.
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