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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: "issiaka aminu" <saka_aminu@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: aminsak50@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 21:38:15 +0000
Subject: Check up on this proposal and call on 00226/70233974.
FROM THE DESK OF:
DR. ISSIAKA AMINU,
BILLS AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (ADB)
OUAGADOUGOU ANNEX,
BURKINA FASO.
My Dear Friend,
First and foremost, I want you to accept my appologies for any inconviences
this mail might cause you to read, but I am the manager of bill and exchange
at the foreign remittance department of African Development Bank here in
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$15.2m US dollars
(Fifteen million two hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
November 2002 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 some body applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidlings 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 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 fours years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner 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. I agree that 30% of
this money will be for you as a respect to the provision of a foriegn
account , 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business
and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you 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 where in the money will be remitted.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text of
the application . I will not fail to bring to your notice this transaction
is hitch-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.Trusting to hear from you
immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Issiaka Aminu.
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