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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: "Dada M.S" <bdattmudas@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: bdattmudasss@yahoo.com
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:30:56 +0100
Subject: REPLY QUICKLY PLEASE.
Foreign Remittance Department
Bank Of Africa
Ouagadougou,Burkina Faso
West Africa.
Attention please,
TOP-SECRET PLEASE.
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Bank Of Africa (BOA)I am writing to seek your interest over a
transaction.
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $22.6 million United
States Dollars floating in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer,Late Dr. George Brumley who died along with his entire family on
Monday, July 21, 2003 in a plane crash.
Since i got information about his death, i have been expecting his next of
kin to come over 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 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 i dont want this money to go into the Bank treasury as
unclaimed Fund.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after five years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as unclaimed fund.
The request of 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 agreed that 30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 60 % would be for me .
There afte i will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this
fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relations 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 that 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,Please contact
me via my CONFIDENTIAL email address above for more DETAILS.
Yours faithfull
Mr.Dada S Musa
Bill and Exchange Manager B.O.A.
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