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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: "francise konan" <francisekonan@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:19:46 +0000
Subject: Dear Ken
Dear A Ken,
My Name is Francise Konan,a credit officer with the one of the leading
(Finance Trust House) here in Abidjan Cote D'ivoire. In my department i
discovered an abandoned funds $18,000.000.00 (Eighteen million United
states dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer
(MR.ANDREAS Ken from Munich, Germany) who died along with his entire
family in July 2000 in a plane crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
Since i got information about his death, I 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 guidlings and laws 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 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after Six years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an
Indigene cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
Your percentage will be declare to you as soon as you indicate your
interest. I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated .
Therefore, to enable the immediate move of this fund to you arranged,you
must apply first to the bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased
indicating.
1.Your full name and address
2.Your telephone and fax number for easy communication.
3.Your company's name and address if any.
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 movement of the money.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
Francise Konan
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