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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: "drandolos Tony" <drandolostony@drandolostony.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:53:03 +0000
Subject: Dear King
From:The Desk of Dr andolos Tony
Bill And Exchange Manager-('ADB )
African Development Bank
Republic of Benin. West Africa.
Alt/Email: drandolostony12@yahoo.fr
Phone: 00229 582 115
Dear King,
Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you. I am
Dr andolos Tony ,from (African Development Bank BENIN),Republic of Benin.
During the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of twelve million
five hundred thousand united states dollars (USD12.500.000.00) floating in
an account opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has
operated on this account again, and after going through some old files in
the records I discovered that the owner of the account died without a
[HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash, hence the money is floating.
After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this
account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
untill his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL] Since our bank,(African
Development Bank )Benin Rep.got information about his death, we have been
expecting his next of kin to come forward 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 and policies but up
to date nobody came up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.
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 elation to the deceased for safety
and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming forth and we don't want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up as his relation. And the country law here does
not allow such money to stay more than Five years, for the money will be
recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this period.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application
form,bank's contact and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not
entertain any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized
within fourteen banking days, after you apply to the bank as a relation to
the deceased.
It has been resolved that 30% will be for you while 10% has been maped out
to defray any expences that might be incured during the process of the
ransaction.
Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have
been remitted into your bank account. When you receive this letter, kindly
send me an e-mail signifying your decision.Including your private Tel/Fax
numbers for quick communication.
I will be very happy if you can treat this business with the utmost secrecy
it demands because of my position in this bank.
For confidentiality reasons,kindly reply to my private Email:
drandolostony12@yahoo.fr
Hoping for a very successful business relationship with you.
Best Regards,
Dr andolos Tony
Phone: 00229 582 115 (direct Line
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