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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: "Wattara ." <wattara002@msn.com>
Reply-To: wattaraamos@o2.pl
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 17:15:42 +0000
Subject: INHERETIANCE TRANSFER
THE MANAGER,
BILLS AND EXCHANGE UNIT,
FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA
COTONOU BENIN.
WEST AFRICA.
PRIVATE CELL PHONE +229-93-70-29-51
PRIVATE EMAIL ADDRESS wattaraamos@o2.pl
Dear SIR/MADAM,
I am Mr Wattara Amos. the manager, bills and exchange unit of the foreign
remittance department of International Bank of Africa Cotonou ,Benin
Republic ,I am writing following the fact that our deceased customer shared
the same surname with you and based on this fact,our search for our deseased
customer's next of kin produced you as someone who could champion this
course and help us pull this fund to a reliable foreign bank account for the
benefit of us all. In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
USD5.5 million Dollars (Five million, five hundred thousand US Dollars) in
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers who died along with his
entire family in November 1998 in a plane crash.
Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his next of
kin to come over and claim his money because we can not release it unless
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guide lines and laws but unfortunately we learnt
that his supposed next of kin or relation died along side with him during
the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my
department 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 we don't want this
money to go into the Bank's treasury as unclaimed.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after four years, the money will be tranfered into the Bank's
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next of kin in
this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and an indegine can not stand as next of kin to this family.
We 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 incured during the business and 60 % would be for me and my
colleagues. There after I and my colleagues 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 relation or next of kin of the deceased
, your private, telephone and fax number for easy and effective
communication.The money will be paid in Draft to be cashed in any part of
the world. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail
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 form of fear as all required
arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter. Trusting to hear from you
immeidately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Wattara Amos.
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