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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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Fraud email example:
From: "johnsonadams_icb" <johnsonadams_icb@babbalu.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:37:29 -0500
Subject: Urgent Please Let Work Together.
FROM THE OFFICE OF DR.JOHNSON ADAMS,
MANAGING DIRECTOR TREASURY DEPARTMENT
INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL BANK (ICB)
ACCRA-GHANA WEST AFRICA.
Alternate E-mail:( drjohnsonadams@myway.com)
My Dear ,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remmittance department of gulf international bank (ICB)and i
decied to contact you on this issue to remmitt fund into
your account .
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m
dollar(ten million five hundred thousand US Dollars) in an
account that belongs to one of our foriegn customer who died
along with his entirer family in korean ari flight 8001 with
the whole passengers aboad on July 2000. Below is the
website of the plan crash.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm)
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 applies for it
as next of kin or relation to the decease as indicated in
our banking guidlines and laws, but unfortunately we learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along
side with him at the plane clash leaving no body 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 decease for safety and subsequent
disbursement since nobody is coming for it and we dont want
this money to go intothe bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
The banking law and guidline here stipulates that if such
money remained unclaimed after seven years, the money will
be transfered into the bank treasure as unclaimed fund, The
request of a foreigner as next of kin in this business is
occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a Ghanian citizen cannot stand as next of kin to a
foreigner.
We agree that30% 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% will be for me and my collegues, There
after I and my collegues will visit your country for
disbursment according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore, to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to
you as arrange, you must apply first to the bank as relation
or next or kin of the deceased indicating your bank name,
your bank account, your private telephone and fax number for
easy and effective communication and location where in 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 business is hicth-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,
Dr.Johnso Adams.
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