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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: "ibrahim alpha" <ibrahim_alpha02@mail.mn>
Reply-To: ibrahim.alpha15@yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:17:26 +0200
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF IBRAHIM ALPHA.
FROM THE DESK OF IBRAHIM ALPHA
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange foreign remittance at the department
of African Development Bank (ADB).
In my departmentn we discovered an abandoned sum of $ 22.6 m US dollars
(Twenty two Millon six hundred thousand US dollars) . In an account that
belongs to one of our foreign customer 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 board.
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 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
businness 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.
The Banking law and guideline here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after ten 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 Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. We agree that
30 % 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 incured
during the business and 60 % would be for me and my colleagues.
Thereafter I and my colleagues 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 relations 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 letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Your;s faithfully,
MR.IBRAHIM ALPHA
(Bill and exchange)
AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK.
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