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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: "franklin kenedy" <franklinkenedy10@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:37:11 +0000
Subject: TREAT VERY CONFIDENTIAL & URGENT RESPONSE...
FROM: MR FRANKLIN KENEDY
THE CHIEF AUDITOR INCHARGE
FOREIGN REMITTANCE UNIT,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK{ADB}.
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA FASO.
Dear Partner,
I presumed that all is well with you and your family.
Please let this do not be a surprise message to you because i got your
contact information from
the international directory in few weeks ago before i decided to contact on
this magintude and lucrative transaction for our present and future survival
in life.Moreover, i have laid all the solemn trust in you before i decided
to disclose this successful & confidential transaction to you.
I am the Chief Auditor Incharge of the Foreign Remittance Unit of our bank
and i decided to contact you over this financial transaction worth the sum
of Nineteen Million, Three Hundred Thousand United States of America
($19,300,000.00 ) for our present and future success.This is an abandoned
fund that belongs to one of our bank foreign customers who died along with
his entire family through plane crash disaster since few years
ago.Meanwhile i was very fortune to came across the deceased file when i was
arranging the old and abandoned customers files in other to sign and submit
to the entire bank management for an official re-documentation and audit of
the year against 2006.
Informed clearly that it was stated in our Foreign banking rules and
regulations which was signed lawfully that if such fund remains unclaimed
till the period of 4 years started from the date when the beneficiary died,
the money will be transferred into the treasury as an unclaimed
fund.However, it is not authorized by the rules guiding our bank for a
citizen of Burkina Faso to make the claim of the fund unless your are a
foreigner no matter the contry different from the deceased.So the request of
you as a foreigner is necessary to apply for the claim and transfer of the
fund smoothly into your reliable bank account as the next of kin to the
deceased.
When the fund is transferred into your account, { 36% } Thirty Six Percent
will be for you in respect of all your assistance for the transfer of the
fund into your account and provision of the bank account where the bank will
remit the fund into,{ 56% } Fifty Six Percent will be for me being the
pioneer of the business while the rest { 9% } Nine Percent will be shared
to respectable Organisations Centers such as Charity , Motherless Babies
Homes, and helpless disabled people around us in the World.
If you are really sure of your, Trustworthy, Accountability and
confidentiality on his transaction,contact me and accept not to change your
mind to cheat, or disappoint me when the fund is transferred into your
account.So reply for the assurance with your telephone and fax numbers
necessary for facilitate an easy communication.so that i will let you know
the next steps and procedures to be followed in order to finalize this
transaction immediately.
I expect your urgent communication.
Yours sincerely,
Mr Franklin Kenedy
_________________________________________________________________
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