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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: "ALUI 2005" <alui_isaka001@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: alui_isa02@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:47:51 +0000
Subject: GOOD DAY DEAR, PLZ REPLY ME SOONEST.
FROM THE DESK OF DR ALUI ISAAKA.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
BANK OF AFRICA(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
PRIVATE TEL:00226 78 81 75 32.
Dear friend ,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.BANK OF
AFRICA(BOA) I am writing, following your address which i got through
international network information when i was searching for a sure email
contact because of the urgency of this transaction. And i hope of your
releability to champion this business opportunity with me.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of U.S$10m US dollars (Ten
Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer who died along with his entire family on Monday,31 July, 2000,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 cannot
release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlines 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 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 bill. The banking law and guidline here
stipulates that if such money
remained unclaimed after four years, the money will be transfered into the
bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreign as next of kin in
this business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 5% will be set aside for
expenses incured during the business and 65% would be for me and my
colleagues. There after 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 bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone
and fax number for easy and effective communication and location
wherein 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 risk-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 immediately as soon as you receive this letter for
more explanations.
Yours faithfully,
DR ALUI ISAAKA.
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