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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: "Yinwa Nta" <yinta2@msn.com>
Reply-To: yinta5@latinmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:37:50 +0000
Subject: Can we work this out
Mr Yinwa Nta,
Auditing Department,
African Development Bank,
Cotonou, Benin Du Republic.
Direct Telephone Line 00 229 97 6014801.
Hello,
My Name is Mr.Yinwa Nta an auditor with the Financial house mentioned above,
here in Cotonou Republic Du Benin. In my department I discovered an
abandoned funds (USD 4.1 M) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer (Mr.Ronald Lake, from California,USA) who died along with his wife
in January 31, 2000 in a plane crash.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/
Since I got information about his death, I have been expecting his kin to
come over and claim his money because the bank cannot release it unless
somebody applies for it as kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in
our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that the couple
did not leave anybody behind for the claim, as they have no immediate family
and it is not in the character of the bank to go looking for a customer's
extended family members in cases like this. It is therefore upon this
discovery that I now decided to make this business proposal to you, so that
this money will be released to you as the kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I
don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years from the date of the first maturity of the
deposit, the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed
fund. The request of foreigner as kin in this business is occasioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and an Indigene cannot stand as next
of kin to a foreigner.
Your percentage will be declared to you as soon as you indicate your
interest. I will visit your country for disbursement according to the
percentage indicated. Therefore, to enable the immediate move of this fund
to your arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next of
kin of the deceased.
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 fear as all
required arrangements will be made for the movement of the money before the
bank takes it in.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter,
indicating your full name, contact address and your telephone number.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
Mr.Yinwa Nta.
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