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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: "musa ali" <musa_ali02@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 14:32:58 +0000
Subject: WITH DUE RESPECT.
FROM THE DESK OF Dr MUSA ALI
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANKOF AFRICA -(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of bank of Africa(BOA). I am writing to seek your coperation over a
business
deal. In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $15million USD
(Fifteen million US dollars) .
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in july 2000 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 and other officials in my
department 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 we don,t want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill. The Banking law
and guideline here stipulates that 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
the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkinabe cannot stand as
next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that 30 % of this money will be for
you
as 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 and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your
country for disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate trnansfer 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 claims and wherein 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 stricly confidential and i will use all our
position in this Bank to effect a hitch free transfer.You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your,s faithfully,
Dr MUSA ALI
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank of Africa (BOA)
Burkina.
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