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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: "Veronica Mantu" <veromantu02@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: veromantu222@yahoo.com.au
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:30:05 +0000
Subject: Thanks for reading this mail.
>From me,Mrs.Veronica Mantu.
Mutual Business Relationship
Dear Sir,
I am Mrs.Veronica Mantu, manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of the above bank. I have urgent and very confidential
business proposition for you. On June 6, 1999, a contractor with ECOWAS, Mr
Fouad Abdel Ghafar Ahmed made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve
calendar months. Valued at US$10.5m dollar (Ten million, five hundred
thousand US Dollars) since we got information about his death discovered
>From his contract employers, ECOWAS Ouagadougou, Burkina-Faso that he died
in the October, 1999 plane crash with Egyptian Air Line. On further
investigation, I found out that he died without making his "WILL? and all
attempts to trace his next of kin was fruitless. I therefore made further
investigation and discovered that he did not declare any next of kin or
relations in all his official documents, including his Bank Deposit
paperwork in my Bank. This sum US$10.5m dollar (Ten million, five hundred
thousand US Dollars) 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 Burkina-Faso banking Law, at the
expiration
of 6 (six) years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Burkina-Faso
Government if nobody applies to claim the fund. Consequently, my proposal is
that I will like you to act as next of kin to him so that the fruits of this
old man?s labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials here in Burkina-Faso. The request of a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that we
will share this money as agreed between you & I as partners in business.
In respect to the providing of a foreign account, some percentage (%) will
be set aside for expenses incurred during the transaction.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as
arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next or kin of the
deceased indicating this bank of your readiness to the claim of this money.
Bank account, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or
email the text of the application. Which you will send to the bank for
indicating them for the claims.
And again will not fail to bring to your notice that this business 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.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Yours Truly,
Mrs. Veronica Mantu.
Bank of Africa (BOA)
Ouagadougou,Burkina-Faso.
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