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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: shehu ahmed <shehuahmed777@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:53:06 +0000
Subject: URGENT RESPOND NEEDED.
>FROM THE DESK OF MR, SHEHU AHMED.BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,BANK OF AFRICA A=
NNEXOUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.WEB SITE OF PLANE CRASH;http://news.bbc.co.uk=
/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stmAttn;ASSALAMU'ALAKUMI am bill and exchange man=
ager at the foriegn remittance department at Bank of africa (BOA). I am wri=
ting you following the impressive information about you through one of your=
friend who runs consitance firm here in my country. He assured me of your =
capability and reliability to champion this businees opportunity with.In my=
department we discovered an abandoned sum of $16.5m US dollars(sixteen.fiv=
e Millon US dollars) . In an account that belongs to one of our foriegn cus=
tomer who died along with his entire family in a concord plane crash in the=
year 2000 in paris that almost took the whole life of the pasengeres on bo=
ard.Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his ne=
xt of kin to come over and claim his balance money in our bank because we =
cannot release it unless somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation=
to the deceased person as indicated in our banking guidelines, but unfortu=
nately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin or relation died along s=
ide with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim.It is t=
herefore upon this discovery that I and other officials in my department no=
w decided to make this businness proposal to you and release the money to y=
ou as the next of kin or relation to the deceased person for safety keeping=
of the money and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and=
we don,t want this money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed bill.Th=
e Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unc=
liamed after Seven years, the money will be transfered into the Bank treasu=
ry account as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of Kin in th=
is business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and=
a Burkinabe cannot stand as the next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that =
30 % of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in respect to the pr=
ovision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for expencess incured =
during the transfer of the money and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues=
.There after I and my colleagues will visit your country fordisbursement ac=
coding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the immediate trna=
nsfer 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 ba=
nk account number, your private telephone and fax number for easy and effec=
tive communication and location where in the money will beremitted.Upon rec=
eipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the Text of Applicat=
ion Form which you shall re-fill with your correct bank informations and ap=
ply to my bank as the original next of kin. I will not fail to bring to you=
r notice that this transaction is hitch free and that you should not entert=
ain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been made for the tr=
ansfer.You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter=
.Trusting to hear from you immediately.WASSALAMU'ALAIKUM.Your,s Isiam broth=
er,SHEHU AHMED.(Bill and Exchange Manager) .Bank Of Africa.(BOA)N.B. My int=
ention of writing you through e-mail is because I belive it is very confide=
ntial and it is only your contact that is with me.
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