fighting spam and scams on the Internet
|
Try our spam filter! Free trial for 30 days |
 |
|
|
joewein.de LLC fighting spam and scams on the Internet |
|
|
|
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.
Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.
Click here to report a problem with this page.
Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:
Fraud email example:
From: "kaburi yusuf" <kaburiyusuf015@unimail.mn>
Reply-To: kaburi_yusuf_02@yahoo.fr
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:03:23 +0200
Subject: very very urgent
Mr.KABURI YUSUF
Dear,
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of Africa,
Ouagadougou . I decided to contact you after a careful thought that you may
be capable of handling this business transaction which i explained below;
In my department i discovered an abandoned sum of $19.5m US dollars
(Nineteen million, five hundred thousand US dollars). In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family
in 2003 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
somebody applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his
supposed next of kin(his son and wife) died alongside with him at the plane
crash leaving nobody behind for the claim .
It is therefore upon this discovery that I have now decided to make this
business proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin (I
want to present you as his busines asociate )to the deceased for safety and
subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming for it and I don't want this
money to go into the Bank treasury as unclaimed Bill.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
Unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transferred into the Bank
treasury as 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
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner .
I agree that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign partner, in
respect to the provision of a foreign account, 10 % will be set aside for
expenses incurred during the business and 50% would be for me and I will
visit your country for disbursement according to the percentages indicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your account as
arranged,you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of the deceased
customer. Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or email the
text of the application.
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.
I expect that you contact me immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Hoping to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Mr .KABURI YUSUF
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa
Nb.also give me your telephone and fax numbers for easy comunication with
you.
Anti-fraud resources: