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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: ali mohamed <ali_000mohamed@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 19:04:54 +0100 (BST)
Subject: URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL
From the desk of DR. ALI MOHAMED
Bill and exchange manager
Foreign remittance department
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU,BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
First and foremost, I must solicit your strictest confidence in this transaction and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval considering the facts we have not known each other before; I wish to use this opportunity to introduce myself to you.
My name is ALI MOHAMED the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department of AFRICA DEVELOPMENT BANK BURKINA FASO.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $U.S18.5Million dollars (Eighteen million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in November 1999 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 some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws 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 disbursement since no one is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guiding here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five 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 Burkinab¡¦cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
We agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a 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 percentage 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 indicating your bank name, your bank account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effective communication and location wherein the money will be remitted.
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 atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the transfer. You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Yours faithfully
ALI Mohamed
Bill & Exchange Manager.
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