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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: "Fred Sata" <fredsata06@msn.com>
Reply-To: fredvin2004@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:02:21 +0000
Subject: requesting for business partner
FROM:The Desk of Dr fred sata,
Bill And Exchange Manager,(BOA)
(Bank Of Africa) Republic of Benin.
Tel:00229 9798 3965
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVATE
Dear friend,
Compliments of the day. I deceided to contact you after I received a worthy
information about your reliability and honesty. Hence I confide in you.
I am Dr fred sata,from (The Bank of Africa Cotonou Republic of Benin).During
the course of our auditing we discovered the sum of Fifteen Million Six
hundred thousand united states dollars (USD$15.600.000.00) floating in an
account opened in this Bank since 1997 and as from 2001 nobody has operated
on this account again, and after going through some old files in the records
I discovered that the owner of the account
died without a [HEIR]sept 11th 2001 by plane crash, hence the money is
floating.
After due verification I noticed that no other person knows about this
account except his wife who was also invovled in the crash, and the account
has no other beneficiary and my investigation proved to me as well that
until his death he was the Director GOLD ARK [SARL]Since our bank,(Bank Of
Africa)Benin Rep.got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come forward and claim his money because we cannot release it
unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and policies but up to date nobody came
up to this bank as his next of kin or relative.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department now decided to make this businness 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 forth and we don't want this money to go
into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
On this note, I decided to seek for whom his name shall be used as the next
of kin as no one has come up as his relation. And the country law here does
not allow such money to stay more than Five years, for the money will be
recalled to the government treasury as unclaimed after this period.
Upon the receipt of your response, I will send to you the application form,
bank'scontact and the next step to take. I will not fail to bring to your
notice that this business is hitch free and that you should not entertain
any fear as all modalities for fund transfer can be finalized within
fourteen banking days, after you apply to the
bank as a relation to the deceased. It has been resolved that 30% will be
for you while 10% has been maped out to defray any expences that might be
incured during the process of the transaction.
Then 60% will be for me which shall be release after the funds must have
been remitted into your bank account.
When you receive this letter, kindly send me an e-mail signifying your
decision.Including your private Tel/Fax numbers for quick communication.
Hoping for a very successful business relationship
with you.
Best Regards,
Dr fred sata.
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