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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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From: "Joshua Nkosi"<joshuanko_22002@breakthru.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 23:29:05 -0800
Subject: Please act fast on this
Mr.Joshua Nkosi,
ABSA Bank Limited,
Johannesburg, South Africa.
Hello friend,
I am Mr.Joshua Nkosi, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of ABSA Bank.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of
US$14,700,000.00(Fourteen Million, Seven
Hundred Thousand United State Dollars only) in an account that belonged
to one of our foreign customers who died along with his entire family,
on November 1996, in a ghastly plane crash,and he happened to be a
Foreigner. Since we got the 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 applied
for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our
banking guidelines. Unfortunately, nobody has come
forward to claim this money.
It is based on this that some officials in my department and I have
decided to establish a cordial business relationship with you, hence by
contacting you. We want you to
present yourself as the next of kin through your relation with the
deceased, so that the funds can be remitted into your account.
Moreover, we do not want the money to go into the government account as
unclaimed bills. The banking law and guidelines here stipulates that any
account abandoned or is dormant
for a period of years, is deemed closed and all money contained
therein forfeited to the government treasury account.
Now, it is being speculated that the above sum will be transferred into the
government account as an
unclaimed fund on or before the end of this financial quarter of 2006, when
nobody come forward to lay claims. The reason for requesting you to
present yourself as next of kin, is occasioned by, the fact that the
deceased (customer) was a foreigner, and we have access to his
detailed
bio data which you will hold as
a weapon to present yourself as the next of kin.
The mode of sharing after a successful transfer of the
money into your account, shall be 70% to my colleagues and I, for the
role you will be expected to play in this deal, we
have agreed to give you 25% of the total sum and 5% for the expenses we
are going to encounter by the two parties in the course of this
transaction.
Therefore, you are expected to reply this letter indicating your readiness
and
interest to participate in this business. After receiving your reply, you
will be communicated to with the exact steps to take.
I expect your urgent response through my private email address
:joshkosi2112@pnetmail.co.za and I shall contact you for
further discussion on this matter,to enable us conclude this transaction
urgently without any delay or hitch.
Personal Regards,
Mr.Joshua Nkosi.
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