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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: frankthorold_1@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 03:44:01 +0200
Subject: READ IT: TRANSACTION PROPSAL.
40,BICCARD CNR STIEMENS
STREET BRAAMFONTEIN
JOHANNESBURG
SOUTH AFRICA
BUSINESS INQURY
I am Mr. Frank Thorold, the manager of Bills and Exchange at the
foreign remittance department, First National Bank South Africa.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of US$10.5M (ten
million five hundred thousand US dollars) in an account that belongs
to one of our foreign customers who died along with his family in the
December 25th
Benin plane crash. Here is the air crash website on cnn
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/index.html
Since we got no 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 the inheritance laws of South Africa.
Unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relations
died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for
the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to
make this business proposal to you and to see the possibility of
releasing the money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased as,
we don't want this money to be retired to the bank’s treasury as unclaimed inheritance.
Please note here that this request for a foreigner as
next of kin in this circumstance is occasioned by the fact that the
customer was a foreigner and a South African cannot stand as next of
kin to the deceased.
I have mapped out 25% of this money for you if you could
provide a foreign account, 10% will be set aside for expenses
incurred during the business and 65% for me. Thereafter, I 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 where the money will be
transfer to.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you further information relating
to the claim procedure. I will not fail to bring to your notice that
this transaction is hitch-free and that you should not entertain any
bit of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the
transfer.
Please contact me immediately for more details as you receive this mail.
Thanks and God bless
Mr. Frank Thorold
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