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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: Sani Keita <sani_keita101@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2006 13:08:51 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Transfer co-operation!!
FROM SANI KEITA
ABIDJAN,COTE D'IVOIRE.
WEST AFRICA.
DIRECT E:MAIL:sani_keita101@yahoo.ca
Dear one,
I am the Manager Bill and Exchange of the foreign
Remittance Department of STANDARD BANK OF ABDIJAN - CI
I am writing following an information about you
through the internet, Your capability and reliability
to champion this opportunity.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of 14
million US dollars (Fourteen million US dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foreign customers
who died in a plane crash along with his entire family
in September 2002.
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 applies for it as next of kin or relation to
the deceased as indicated in our banking and financial
policies.
But unfortunately, we learnt that his supposed next of kin
or relation died along side with him in the
accident leaving no body behind to claim the money.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 treasury as unclaimed bills.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if
such money remained unclaimed after four years, the
money will be transferred into the Bank 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 indigene cannot stand as next of kin
to the deceased family.
We agreed that 20% of this money will be for you as
foreign partner in respect to the provision of a
foreign account,while 5% will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the course of the transaction
and 75% would be for me and my colleagues.
Thereafter, my colleagues and I 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
indicating an account where the money will be
remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you the
next-of-kin application text. Equally so, 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 by email as
soon as you receive this letter.
I decided to contact you because I have interest in
your country where we can invest our own percentage to
avoid peoples' awareness as we are civil servants.
We can conclude this operation within ten banking days
depending on the rapidness exhibited.
Please keep this very confidential.Trusting to hear
from you shortly for a detailed information which are
confirmable before you can make up your mind to apply.
Yours faithfully,
Mr Sani Keita.
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