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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: "jackson pinto" <jackson.pinto44@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:17:44 +0700
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF MR JACKSON PINTO
FROM MR. JACKSON PINTO
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
ASIA DEVELOPMENT BANK
THAILAND
BANGKOK
Greetings and compliments of the season,
I am making this proposal to you based on my conviction that you will be
capable of championing this business cause.
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.6m US dollars (Ten
Million Six hundred Thousand US Dollars) in an account that belongs to one
of our foreign customer, late Mr. Abdul Rehman Afzal an Afghani who died
along with his entire family in an American bomb attack on the city of
Kandahar, Afghanistan in the year 2003.
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, business partner or relation to the
deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines but unfortunately I learnt
that all his supposed next of kin or relation died alongside with him during
the bomb attack leaving nobody behind for the claim. It is therefore upon
this discovery that I 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 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 five years, the money will be transfered into the bank
treasury account 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 thailand person cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I wish to inform you that 40% of this money will be for you as foreign
partner, in respect to the provision of a foreign account, while the
remaining 60% would be for me. Thereafter I will visit your country for
disbursement accoding to the percentages indicated. Therefore to enable the
immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged, you must apply first to
the bank as relation, business partner 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 where in
the money will be remitted.
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.
You should contact me immediately as soon as you receive this mail.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours faithfully,
Jackson Pinto
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