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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 Achuzia Obi" <alex_ogene1970@yahoo.co.in> (may be fake)
Reply-To: alex_ogene2004@yahoo.co.in
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:57:24 +0400
Subject: www.ecowas.info
Auditing and Accounting Unit
Foreign Remittance Dept Ecowas
Bank International Lome Togo
S.A 13 rUE dU commerce BP 346
Lome Togo
PHONE +228-906-30-64
Website---------------------www.ecowas.info
From the Desk Mr Achuzia Obi
Account manager
Ecowas Bank Lome Togo
Dear Friend,
I am writing following the impressive information about your profile
through thewebsite, your capability and reliability to champion this
opportunity.
In my department, we discovered an
abandoned sum of (TEN million Five Hundred Thousand United States
dollars). In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
who
died along with his entire family in APRIL,2000 in a ROAD ACCIDENT.
Since we got this 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
deceased as indicated in our banking and financial policies but
unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of kin or relation died
along
side with him in the accident leaving no body behind to claim the
money.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department 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 since nobody is coming for it and we
don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after long period, the money will be transferred
into the
Bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for af oreigner as next of
kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a
foreigner and an indegine cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased
family. We agreed 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 incurred during this transaction and 60 % would be
for me and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit
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 relation or next of kin of the deceased indicating your
private, telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where the money will be
remitted. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
e-mail the text of the application. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is 100% 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. I
decided to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of
the world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples
awareness as we are civil servants. We can conclude this operation
within
ten banking days. Please keep this very confidential. Contact me for
more
information, all confirmable before you apply if you want.
May God be with you.
Trusting to hear from you shortly.
Peace and love always.
Best regards
MR ACHUZIA OBI
E.B.I.LOME TOGO
PHONE +228-906-30-64
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