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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: "Sayidi Osama" <sayidiosa229@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: sayidi04@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:07:15 +0000
Subject: R:e VERY URGENT
MR SAYIDI OSAMA
MANAGER, DEPT.OF FILE AND COMPUTER.
BANK OF AFRICA
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO,WEST AFRICA
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL.
ATTENTION:
I am the manager in file and computer department of BANK OF AFRICA, I got
your contact through international business inquiry as i was desperately
searching for a honest foreiner who will help me receive this abandoned
money in his account.
In my department i discovered a file of unclaimed fund of $12.250m US
dollars(TWELVE MILLION TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND US DOLLARS).
In an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in plane crash 1998.
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 businness 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 dont want
this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclamed after eight years, the money will be transfer 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 Burkinabe 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 incured during the business and 60% would be for me and my
colleagues.
There after I will visit your country for disbursement accoding 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 relations 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
where in the money will be remitted.
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.
Oncemore, i assure you that nobody will ask of this fund after the fund has
successfully been transfered to your account and i will not forget to tell
you that every information regarding to the deceased customer including the
information backing his account are all intact with me, so you should be
rest assured that i have done my home work very well before contacting you.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr Sayidi Osama
manager,of file and computer dept.
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
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