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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: "madi abu" <madi_abu30@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: madi_abu01@yahoo.com
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:01:27 +0000
Subject: TREAT URGENT.
FROM THE DESK OF MADI ABU
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO
Hello,My Dear
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK BURKINAFASO. I got your contact address through
internet net work
search when searching for a good and reliable person that
will assist me in this transaction.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of 25.6m US Dollars ( twenty
five milllion Six hundred thousand US Dollars)in an account thatbelongs to
one of our foreign customer who died on 31st JULY 2000 IN SUPER SONIC
CONCORDE plane crash AT CHARLES DE GAULLE AIRPORT IN PARIS FRANCE along with
his entire family.
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 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 i 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 year, 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.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account and 70% would be for ME.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer 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 bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and
location where in 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 hitch free and that you should not entertain any atom of fear
as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
Yours faithfully
Mr Madi Abu.
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