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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: =?iso-8859-1?q?KARRIM=20ALI?= <karrimali99@yahoo.co.in>
Reply-To: karrim01@v3mail.com
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:21:39 +0530 (IST)
Subject: This letter may come to you as a surprise
I have a new email address!You can now email me at: karrimali99@yahoo.co.in
Dear Friend,
This letter may come to you as a surprise, However let me briefly Introduce myself to you,I am KARRIM ALI the head of Account and Audit Department of Bank Of Africa, in Burkina Faso.
I just want to share a mutual Business relationship with you which will benefit both of us at the end of it.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars(Ten million,five hundred thousand US dollars)In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died a long with his entire family in 16 February 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 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 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 is bursement since nobody is coming for it and we 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 Eight 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 Burkina be cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree 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 and my colleagues. There after I and my colleagues will visit your country for Disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
I will send to you by fax or email a text of the application you will use to apply to the bank.
Yours faithfully ,
KARRIM ALI.
- KARRIM ALI
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