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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: "dr ali musa" <dr_ali_musa28@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:32:59 +0000
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
FROM THE DESK OF Dr Ali
B.I.C.I.A.B OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
PRIVATE CONFIDENTIAL
COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department of bank lnternationale pour le Commerce et le lndustrie et de la
Agriculture du Burkina-Faso I am writing following the impressive
information about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm
in your country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to
champion this business opportunity.In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of $ 20m US dollars ( Twenty million US dollars) . In an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his
entire family in november 16,2001 in a 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 cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines 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 therefore upon this discovery
that I now decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don´t want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulatesthat if such money remained
unclamed after five years, the money will be transfered into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned
by thefact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner.50 % of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, 50 % would be for
me .
There after I will visit your country for disbursement accoding 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 relations 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 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.Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your´s faithfully,
Dr Ali Musa
Dr Ali Bill and exchange manager,
BANK BICIAB
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