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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: "musa asam" <musa_asam7@gazeta.pl>
Reply-To: mr.musa002@hotmail.fr
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:44:26 +0200
Subject: FROM THE DESK OF Mr, Musa Asam.
*FROM THE DESK OF Mr, Musa Asam.
Bill and Exchange Manager.
BANK OF AFRICA.
COTONOU REPUBLIC DE BENIN.
West Africa.
I am Mr, Musa Asam. The manager of bill and exchange at the foreign
remittance department of Bank of Africa. In my department we discovered an
abandoned sum of US$16.5M (Sixteen 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 August 17, 1999 at earth quake in Izmir,
Turkey. Since we got information about his death, we have been expecting his
next of kin to come over and claim his balance money that is in our bank we
cannot release the money unless some body applies for it as next of kin or
relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but
unfortunately we learning that all his supposed next of kin or relation died
alongside with him in the earth quake leaving nobody behind for the claim.
It is therefore upon this discovery that I now decided to make this business
proposal to you and for the bank to release the money to you if you will
follow up my instructions to be the next of kin or relation to the deceased
for safety and subsequent disbursement of the money 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 guidelines here stipulates that if such money remained
unclaimed after TEN years,the money will be transferred into the bank
treasury as unclaimed bill. The request of foreigner as next of kin in this
business is occasioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner and an
indigene cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner. I agree that 45% of
this money will be for you as respect to the provision of a foreign account,
5% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the business and 50% be
for me. Thereafter, 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 where the money will be transfer to you.
Upon receipt of your reply, I will send to you by fax or e-mail the TEXT of
APPLICATION FORM which you shall re-fill in with your receiving bank account
Informations and Apply to our Bank. 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.
Thanks.
Yours truly, Mr. Musa Asam.
N/B: CONFIDENTIALITY IS HIGHLY NEEDED IN THIS BUSINESS SINCE MY HOPE IS IN
THIS MONEY.*
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