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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: "niasse raila" <niasseraila12@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 06:54:14 +0000
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR NIASSE RAILA
FROM THE DESK OF MR NIASSE RAILA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.
AFRICA BANK (BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
First, I must solicit your confidence in this transaction
This is by virtue of its nature as being utterly CONFIDENTIAL AND TOP
SECRET. However We were directed last year 2004 by the council of ministers
to carry out a careful and comprehensive review of all overdue payments to
foreign customers and to effect payments immediately.
During the above mentioned process, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$10.5M (Ten million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in a plane crash that happened in Kenya, East Africa.
Since we got information about his death, and the bank have been expecting
his next of kin to come over and claim his money because the bank cannot
release it unless some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately
we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with
him at the plane crash.
Please I want you to visit the website below for more information about the
Plane Crash:
www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/07/20/kenya.crash/index.html
Therefore upon this discovery that I send this business proposal to you so
that money can be release to you as the next of kin or relation to the
deceased for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for
it and I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed
bill.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, and 65% would be for me,
while 5% will be for expenses incure during the transaction. There after I
will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentage
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 wherein the money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by email the text of the
application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this transaction is hitch-free risk and this transaction will
only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I know what to do and move
the fund into your account without any delay and that you should not
entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangement have been made for
the transfer.
You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter so that I will send
you the text of the application to apply to the bank and the data
information of the deceased customer
Yours faithfully.
MR NIASSE RAILA
Bill & Exchange Manager,
AFRICA BANK (BOA)
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