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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: fred azu <fred_azu50@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:42:09 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Good Day................
FROM THE DESK OF THE MANAGER,
BILL AND EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT,
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA LOME TOGO,
16 RUE DE COMMERCE,B.P,359.
LOME TOGO.
Dear
I am Fred Azu, the manager of bills and exchanges at the foreign remittance Department of INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA LOME TOGO. I am writing following the information about you through International web directory and wish I know you are capable and reliable person to champion this business opportunity.
In my department, we discovered an abandoned sum of USD 18.5 m ,(Eighteen million,five hundred thousand United State dollars). in an alloted vault in the bank, that belongs to one of our foreign customer(MR.JOHN COHEN O'BRIEN) who died along with his entire family on Novermber 1999 in a plane crash in EgyptAir Flight 1999
Since we got informations about his death, we have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claims his money because we cannot release it unless somebody apply for it as next of kin or relation to the died customer as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but unfortunately we learnt that all his surpposed next-of-kin or relation died along side with him at the plane crash leaving no body behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in our institution now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the safe-box containing money to you as the next-of-kin or relation to the died customer for safety and subsequent disbursement, since no body is coming for it and we don't want this money to go into the Bank treasury unclaimed.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money/deposit remained unclaimed after five to six years, the money/deposit will be transfered into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund. The request for a foreigner as next-of-kin in this business is occassioned by the act that the customer was a foreigner and a Togoleise can not 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 this business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues. Thereafter I and my colleagues will visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as been arranged, you must apply first to the bank as relation or next-of-kin of the died customer.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail, the text of the application you will transcribe as your order and send to the bank. 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.
YOURS SINCERELY,
FRED AZU.
MANAGER FOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPARTMENT,
INTERNATIONAL BANK OF AFRICA LOME TOGO.
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