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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: "edward " <edwardjonnes@yahoo.com>
Date: 3 Feb 2007 21:20:42 -0000
Subject: BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER
FROM THE DESK OF.DR.EDWARDJONNES BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGERFOREIGN REMITTANCE DEPT.BANK OF AFRICA(B.O.A)OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASODear Friend,I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance
department BANK OF AFRICA .In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of U.S$25M US dollars(Twenty five Million US dollars) in
an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along
with his entire family in November 2005 in a plane crash on their visting to
nigeria on the 22th of october 2005.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
guidlines and laws 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 now decided
to make this business proposal to you, so that the money will be released
to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety and
subsequent is bursement since nobody is coming for it and we don\'t want
this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.The banking law and guidline
here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after two years, the
money will be transfered into the banktreasury as unclaimed bill. The
request of foreigner as next of kin in this business is occassioned by the
fact that the customer was a foreigner and a Burkina faso cannot be stand
as next of kin to a foreigner.I propose that 30% of this money will be for
you as my foreign artner, 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. Thereafter 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 elation 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 to wirein the money where it will be
remitted.Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by e-mail a text of
the application which you\'ll fill in and send to the bank\'s email address. 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 immediately as
soon as you receive this letter or further your clarifications,this is my
personal email;address edwardjonnes@yahoo.com Yours faithfully,DR.EDWARDJONNES.
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