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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: "smith williams" <smithwilliams_006@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:33:02 +0100
Subject: Urgent business proposal
FROM:mr Smith williams
manager in FNB, Bank .LtD
south africa.
Alternative Email:smithwilliams006@yahoo.com
Tel:+27-73-040-1507.
Dear Sir,
I am Mr. Smith williams, manager of bills/exchange at the foreign remittance
department of FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SOUTH AFRICA LIMITED (FNB), In my
department, we discovered an abandoned sum of US$40,000,000.00 (Fourty
Million, United State Dollars ) in an account that belonged to one of our
foreign customers who died along with his entire family, on November 1994,
in a ghastly 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 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 my contacting
you. We want you to present yourself as the next of kin or relation of 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 December 2005.
The reason for requesting you to present yourself as next of kin, is
occasioned by, the fact that the deceased (customer) was a foreigner.
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 at
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 to my confidential e-mail address (
smithwilliams006@yahoo.com )to enable us to conclude this transaction
urgently without any hitch. Please treat this business proposal as strictly
confidential for security reasons.
Personal Regards,
Mr. smith williams.
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