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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: "Dr Buriki Molanga" <buriki@circlemail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 21:23:36 +0000
Subject: my sincere request
>From the Desk Of:
DrBuriki Molanga
Bank of Africa Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso.
Dear friend
I feel quite safe dealing with you in this business
proposition having gone through your remarkable profile on the internet.Though, this medium(Internet)has been greatly abused, I choose to reach you through it because it still remains the fastest, surest and most secured medium of communication .
However, this correspondence is unofficial and private, and it should be treated as such. I also guarantee you that this deal is hitch free from all what you may think of. I am DR BURIKI MOLANGA THE DIRECTOR BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT. BANK OF AFRICA, I am contacting you based on Trust and Confidentiality that will be attached to this deal.
The Management and the Legal department of our BANK
( BANK OF AFRICA OUGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO in a recent meeting Last Week, Recommended that the account of Richard Brokaw, 76 who was one of the bank's depositor, should be declared Dormant,confisticated and the depositor's fund sent to the Bank Treasury according to BANK OF AFRICA Banking and financial law.
I sent a routine notification to his forwarding address but got no reply. I sent a reminder and finally I discovered from his contract employers, the Kruger Gold Company that Mr. Richard Brokaw died in a plane crash along with his wife Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brokaw died in
a plan crash along with his wife in Egypt Air Flight 990, 1999 air crash (for more information about this crash and person you can contact
this website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm
his is an account holder in my bank, his owns a dollar account with the sum of US$38.6M (Thirty Eight Million, Six HundredThousand United States Dollars Only) deposited in a numbered account
Since we got this information about his death and on further investigation,I found out that he died without making a WILL, and all attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further investigationand discovered that Mr.Richard Brokaw did not declare any kin or relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank.
This sum of US$38.6M is still sitting in my Bank and the interest is being rolled over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one will ever come forward to claim it. According to Laws of Burkina faso at the expiration of 7 (seven) years, the money will drevert to the bank's Treasury as unciamd fund
This is where I am interested on and his is where I want you to come in. I want you to come in as the relation of the deceased I will present you to the bank with all the required information that will back you up next of kin to Mr.Richard Brokaw then will advise you exactly how we should handle it
Please include your telephone/fax number/ Home Address when replying this mail and I will give you more information as soon as you indicate your willingness to assist in this transaction.
The whole Procedures will last only 7 working daysto get the fund retrieved successfully Without trace even in future.
After successful conclusion of this transaction, we
shall share the money 60-40.
Awaiting your urgent reply via my confidential email address:
buriki03@tugamail.com
Yours truly,
Dr Buriki Molanga
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