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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: george kouma <gkouma145@hotmail.fr>
Reply-To: <geo4kouma@yahoo.co.nz>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:18:58 +0100
Subject: Please i am waiting for your urgent reply
Dear Friend, Compliment of the season, I know that this letter may come to you as a surprise, but you need not to worry as I use this way to contact you it is due to is only means I can reach you confidentially as a foreign to seek for your assistance in this matter. I am Mr. George kouma the manager audit and account department of our bank, (A.D.B.) Ouagadougou Burkina Faso I am seeking for your capability and reliability to champion this business transaction with me, in my department I discovered an abandoned sum of nineteen million, three hundred thousand united states dollars ($19,300,000.00 US dollars) in account that belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his family in a plane crash long time ago Since our bank got information about his death, the bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his fund he deposited in our bank because we cannot release it unless somebody applied for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines, But unfortunately we learnt that all his supposed next of kin died alongside with him at the plane crash leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon this discovery I decided to make this business proposal to you to give me your assistance to apply to our bank as the next-of-kin to the foreign deceased customer of our bank have been expecting his next of kin to come over and claim his money and nobody is coming for it The banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained unclaimed after five years the money will be transferred into the bank treasury as unclaimed fund and i will not want the money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill Why I am requesting for a foreigner as next of kin in this business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and a citizen of this country cannot stand as next of kin to the account Please note down that once the fund get transferred into your account, you will take 40% while i will take 60% of the total sum and I will resign from work and come over to your country once the fund hits your account and I will still need your assistance to direct me for business investment in your country and you are the once to issue me a letter of invitation or visa immediately the fund get transferred please if you are willing to assist me in this transaction you are to go ahead and reply this mail immediately so that I will let you know the next step to follow immediately in order to finalize this transaction in a period of time. For the success of this transaction, I will like you to apply to bank and act as the only existing next-of-kin to the deceased which our bank will replace the deceased account information through proper documentation in position of your own account. This transaction is risk-free, it will never harm your good reputation in your society because no one can trace the account, and on the instant of the transfer of the fund into your account, the chapter of this transaction will be closed entirely. I will be giving you guidelines and information you will be using to follow up the bank during the duration of this transaction till the fund gets transferred into your nominated bank account. So if you are interested reply to me immediately with the information bellow for more details and how to transfer the fund into you bank account. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you the letter of claim which you will send to the bank for the claim of the fund Your full nameYour full addressyour sexYour ageYour countryMarital statusYour photographYour occupationYour personal phone numberYour personal fax number Note that you have to keep every thing secret as to enable the transfer to move very smoothly with out any leakage till the fund gets into the account you will provide to the bank. Thank,Your faithfully,Mr. George kouma
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