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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: "Owusu Ansah Kwasi." <owusu_2222@yahoo.com> (may be fake)
Reply-To: owusu_2002@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 12:55:47 +0100
Subject: RE:ITERBNK/T2004.
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am the manager, bills and exchange unit of the
foreign remittance department of International
Commercial Bank Ghana.
I am writing following the fact that our
deceased customer shared the same surname with you and
based on this fact, our search for our deceased
customer's
next of kin produced you as someone who could champion
this course and help us pull this fund to a reliable
foreign bank account for the
benefit of us all.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
USD5.5 million Dollars (Five million, five hundred
thousand US Dollars) in account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire
family in November 1998 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 can not release it unless somebody
applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guide lines and
laws but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed
next of kin or relation died along side with him
during 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
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's treasury as unclaimed.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed after four years, the
money will be transferred into the Bank's treasury as
unclaimed fund.
The request for a foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer
was a foreigner and an indigenes can not stand as next
of kin to this 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 the business and 60 % would be for me
and my colleagues.
There after my colleagues and I 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, your
private telephone and fax numbers for easier
communication.
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 hitch
free and that you should not entertain any form of
fear, as all required arrangements have been made for
the transfer.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you
receive this letter.
Please,reply through: owusu_2002@hotmail.com
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Truly,
Owusu Ansah Kwasi.
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