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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: "koo ma" <kokoma44@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: coldajafota@tsamail.co.za
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 08:44:28 +0000
Subject: ATTN:(TREAT AS URGENT)
ATTN:(TREAT AS URGENT)
Private coldajafota@tsamail.co.za
I am Mr. HOPE COLDA ,a manager in the Bills and Exchange at the
Foreign Remittance Department of one of the leading banks in Ghana. I
am writing this letter to ask for your support and cooperation to carry out
this business opportunity in my department.
We discovered an abandoned sum of $28,500,000 (Twenty eight million, five
hundred thousand United States Dollars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foreign customers who died along with his entire family a wife and two
children in November 1999 in an auto crash.
Since we heard of his death, we have been expecting his next-of-kin to come
over and put claims for his money as the heir,because we cannot release the
fund from his account unless someone applies for claim as the next-of-kin to
the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines.Unfortunately, neither their family member nor distant
relative has everappeared to claim the said fund.It is in our banking
guideline that if none of the relatives come up to claim this fund after
6years of the death of the late customer,the fund will be regarded as an
unclaimed bill and will be transferred to the bank's treasury account.
Upon this discovery, I and other officials in my department have agreed to
make business with you and release the total amount into your account as the
heir of the fund since no one came for it or discovered he maintained
account with our bank,otherwise the fund will be returned to the banks
treasury as unclaimed fund.
We have agreed that our ratio of sharing will be as stated thus;30 %
for you as foreign partner,65 % for us the officials in my department
and 5 % for the settlement of all local and foreign expences incurred by us
and you during the course of this business.
Upon the successful completion of this transfer, I and one of my
colleagues will come to your country and mind our share. It is from our 65%
we intend to import Agricultural Machineries into my country as a way of
recycling the fund.
To commence this transaction,we require you to immediately indicate
your interest by a return e-mail with the following information:
1,Your Full Name and Address
2,Your Private Mobile,Telphone and Fax numbers
3,Your Bank Account Address Name and Company
Upon the receipt of this,i will inturn get back to you and give you the
mordalities for the bank to approve you as the next of kin.
Note also, this transaction must be kept
because of its nature.I look forward to receiving your prompt response.
Please contact me through my personal: coldajafota@tsamail.co.za
so we can discuss more.
Best Regards
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