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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: "amah john" <barr.amah@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:44:47 +0200
Subject: PLS REPLY
From Barrister Amah John
Senior Advocate of Burkina Faso ESQ
West Africa.
Attn:
With due respect, don't be surprised or afraid to receive this type of
message from me. Well, I am Barrister Amah John, the personal resident
Attorney here in Burkina Faso to Mr. Sheu Yuan-dong, the late governor
of
Taiwan's Central Bank, his wife and only daughter with other four other
finance officials returning from a conference in Bali Died in a plane
crash
in Taiwan on February 16, 1998. My client was having an abandon sum of
Thirty Million Five Hundred thousand united state dollars ($30.5m USD)
with
Bank of Africa, Burkina Faso.
The fact and confidentially, this sum kept here very secret while
nobody
knows except his wife, as he was a governor of Taiwan's Central Bank,
anything can happen, so he kept this money here in case of emergency.
Unfortunately he lost his live with his family in the event of the
plane
crash, since then I have made several enquiries to locate any of my
client
relatives but all my efforts were unsuccessful.
Above all, since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this money to
go
into the banks treasury as an unclaimed bill. Because the banking law
and
guidelines here stipulated that if such money remained unclaimed after
ten
(10) years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as an
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 Burkina
be
cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
View this website:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9802/16/taiwan.crash.update2/
After all these, I decided to trace his relatives over the Internet, to
locate any member of his family but of no avail, hence I contacted you
to
assist me in repatriating the balance of late Mr. Sheu left behind to
you as
his real next of kin. For your assistance, I agree to offer you 30% as
my
foreign partner after the money will be transfer into your nominated
bank
account and 5% will be aside of any expenses during the transfer.
Therefore
to enable the immediate transfer of the fund to you as indicated, you
must
apply first to the bank as his next of kin, indicating your bank
information
where the money will be remitted. It may interest you to note that I
have
all necessary legal documents that can be used to backup the claim.
All I require is your honest cooperation to enable us seeing this deal
through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a legitimate
arrangement that will protect you and me from any breach of the law. I
hope
you will welcome this life opportunity, if so, please get back to me in
confirmation of your good interest to enable us discuss further.
I look forward to hearing from you, so that I can send to you the text
of
application which you will fill-in your details where the money will be
remitted and tender to the bank as his next of kin.
Thanks in anticipation of your kind co-operation.
Best regards,
Barr.Amah John.
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