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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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From: franck danga <franck_danga300@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 12:53:51 +0100 (BST)
Subject: I HOPE IN YOU.
Mr. Franck Danga,
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dear Sir/Madam
I am Mr.Franck danga, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign
remittance department of ABSA Bank. In my department,we discovered an abandoned sum of US$14,700,000.00(Fourteen Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged to one
of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on
November 1996, in a ghastly plane crash, and he happened to be a
Foreigner.
Since we got the 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 applied for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines.Unfortunately, nobody
has come forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have
decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by
contacting you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin
through your relation with the deceased, so that the funds can be remitted
into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any account abandoned or is dormant for a period of years, is deemed
closed and all money contained therein forfeited to the government treasury
account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into
the government account as an unclaimed fund on or before the end of
this financial quarter of 2005, when nobody come forward to lay claims.
The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is
occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and
we have access to his detailed bio data which you will hold as a weapon
to present yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the money into your
account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the role you will be
expected to play in this deal, we have agreed to give you 25% of the
total sum and 5% for the expenses we are going to encounter by the two
parties in the course of this transaction. Therefore, you are expected to
reply this letter indicating your readiness and interest to participate
in this business.
After receiving your reply, you will be communicated to with the exact
steps to take. I expect your urgent response through my email address
franck_danga300@yahoo.co.in .And I shall contact you for further discussion
on this matter, to enable us conclude this transaction urgently without
any delay or hitch.
Please treat this business proposal as strictly confidential for security reasons considering my official position in ABSA Bank.
Regards,
MR. franck danga.
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