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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: "ahmed taniju" <ahmtaniju@peru.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:41:32 +0000
Subject: Assistance / Partnership..
Dear Partner, Assalamo Alaikum,
This mail might come to you as a surprise and the temptation to ignore it as
unserious could come into your mind but please consider it a divine wish and
accept it with a deep sense of humility, I am the manager of bill and
exchange at the Foriegn Remittance Department of African Development
Bank,Burkina Faso-West Africa, In my department we discovered an abandoned
sum of US$10M (Ten million US dolloars) in an account that belongs to one of
our foriegn customer who died along with his entire family in a plane crash.
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
some body 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 and other officials in my
department now decided to make this business proposal to you and release the
money to you as the next of kin or relation to the deceased for safety 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 because the banking law
states that, if such fund remain unclaimed for many year's and then, the
fund will be transfer into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foriegn account, and 60% would be for me,while
10% will be for expenses (if there is any) There after I will visit your
country for disbursement according to the percentage indicated. Therefore,
to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must
apply first to the bank as relation 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 wherein the
money will be remitted.
Upon the receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the text
of the application to fill and send to the bank. I will not fail to bring to
your notice that this transaction is free risk and you should keep this
transaction (TOP SECRET) and do not let the bank notice that, I contacted
you to claim this fund but I will be giving you all information from the
bank until the fund is transfered into your account.
This transaction will only take us 14 banking days because as a banker, I
know what to do and move the fund into your account without any delay. You
should not entertain any atom of fear as all required arrangements have been
made for the transfer.
You should contact me as soon as you receive this letter. Through my private
E-mail address:
ahmtaniju1@yahoo.fr<http://ca.f585.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=ahmtaniju1@yahoo.fr>
Yours faithfully.
Mr. Ahmed Taniju
Bill & Exchange Manager, ( A.D.B.)
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