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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: "lucson 1000" <lucson_1000@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 13:11:22 +0000
Subject: REPLY ME 00226 7666 4051.
Dear
I I am Mr Lucson Mark, the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance Department Bank Of Africa. In my Department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$15.5M (Fiftteen million five hundred thousand US
dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died
along with his family in November 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
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guide lines and laws 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 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 bill.
The banking law and guidelines 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 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.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as respect to the provision
of a foreign account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during
the business and 60% 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 the
money will be transfer.
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 mail,
Trusting to hear from you immediately Yours faithfully.
Telephone numbers 00226 7666 4051
Mr Lucson Mark,
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