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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: "Ayinde Sikiru" <ayindesikiru@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: ourconta1982@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 01:22:14 +0000
Subject: From:Mr.Ayinde Sikiru.
From:Mr.Ayinde Sikiru.
International Bank of Africa.
Lome-Togo.
URGENT BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
Attn: Director,
I am the Manager bill and exchange of Foriegn Remittance Department
International Bank of Africa Lome-Togo.
I am writing,following the impressive information about your profile through
the website,Your capability and reliability to champion this opportunity.In
my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of us$10million us dollars (Ten
Million Us Dollars).In an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customers who died along with his entire family in october,1999 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 and financial policies but nfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him in the
accident leaving no body behind to claim the money.
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 treasury as unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after six years,the money will be transferred into the Bank
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 indigene cannot stand as next of kin to the deceased family.
We agreed that 25% of this money will be for you as foreign partner,in
respect to the provision of a foreign account,5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during this transaction 2% will be used for haritable
services and the balance would be for me and my colleagues.Thereafter I and
my colleagues 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 indicating your private,telephone and fax number for easy and
effective communication and location where the money will be remitted.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 atom of fear as all
required arrangements have been made for the transfer.
You should contact me on MY E-MAIL as soon as you receive this letter.I
decided to contact you as you have products of interest in your part of the
world where we can invest our own percentage to avoid peoples awareness as
we are civil servants.We can conclude this operation within ten banking
days.Please keep this very confidential.Contact me for more information,all
confirmable before you apply if you want.
May God be with you.Trusting to hear from you shortly for a detailed
information which are confirmable before you can makeup your mind to apply.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Ayinde Sikiru.
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