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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: "David Wood" <davidwood8@ig.com.br>
Reply-To: davidwood12000@live.com
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:37:41 +0200
Subject: BUSINESS PROPOSAL
No: 75 Avenue Nkwamekuruma
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
West Africa.
RE: TRANSFER OF $152,000.000.00 USD (ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY TWO MILLION
DOLLARS ONLY)
Dear Friend,
We want to transfer to overseas ($ 152,000.000.00USD) One hundred and Fifty
two million United States Dollars only) from a Bank in Burkina Faso, I want
to ask you to quietly look for a reliable and honest person who will be
capable and fit to provide either an existing bank account or to set up a
new Bank a/c immediately to receive this money, even an empty a/c can serve
to receive this money, as long as you will remain honest to me till the end
of this important business trusting in you and believing in God that you
will never let me down either now or in future.
I am Mr.David Wood, the Auditor General of a bank in Burkina Faso, during
the course of our auditing, I discovered a floating fund in an account
opened in the bank in 1990 and since 1993 nobody has operated on this
account again,after going through some old files in the records I discovered
that the owner of the account died without a [heir] hence the money is
floating and if I do not remit this money out urgently it will be forfeited
for nothing.
The owner of this account is Mr. Arthur Coleman , a foreigner, and an
Industrialist, who died since 1993 and no other person knows about this
account or anything concerning it, the account has no other beneficiary and
my investigation proved to me as well that Arthur Coleman until his death
was the manager of Coleman Co.(ltd).BF.
We will start the first transfer with fifty two million [$52,000.000] upon
successful transaction without any disappointment from your side, we shall
re-apply for the payment of the remaining amount to your account. The amount
involved is (USD 152M) One hundred and Fifty two million United States
Dollars only. I want to first transfer $52,000.000 [fifty two million United
States Dollars from this money into a safe foreigners account abroad before
the rest, but I don't know any foreigner, I am only contacting you as a
foreigner because this money can not be approved to a local person here,
without valid international foreign passport, but can only be approved to a
foreigner with valid international passport or drivers license and foreign
a/c because the money is in US DOLLARS and the former owner of the a/c Mr.
Arthur Coleman is a foreigner too, and the money can only be approved into a
foreign a/c.
However, we will sign a binding agreement, to bind us together. Also I want
you to know that am revealing this business to you with believe in God that
you will never let me down in this business, you are the first and the only
person that I am contacting for this business, so please reply urgently so
that I will inform you on the next step to take urgently. Send also your
private telephone and fax numbers for telephone communication and easy
sending of necesary documents.
I want us to meet face to face to build confidence and to sign a binding
agreement that will bind us together before transferring the money to any
account of your choice where the fund will be safe before we fly to your
country for withdrawal, sharing and investments. I need your full
co-operation to make this work fine because the management is ready to
approve this payment to any foreigner who has correct information of this
account, which I will give to you, upon your positive response and once I am
convinced that you are capable and will meet up with instructions of a key
bank official who is deeply involved with me in this business.
I need your strong assurance that you will never,never let me down. With my
influence and the position of the bank official, we can transfer this money
to any foreigner's reliable account which you can provide with assurance
that this money will be intact pending until our physical arrival in your
country for sharing. The bank official will destroy all documents of
transaction immediately we receive this money leaving no trace to any place
and to build confidence you can come immediately to discuss with me face to
face after which I will make this remittance in your presence and three of
us will fly to your country at least two days ahead of the money going into
the account.
I will apply for annual leave to get visa immediately I hear from you that
you are ready to act and receive this fund in your account. I will use my
position and influence to obtain all legal approvals for onward transfer of
this money to your account with appropriate clearance from the relevant
ministries and foreign exchange departments. At the conclusion of this
business, you will be given 35% of the total amount, 60% will be for me,
while 5% will be for expenses both parties might have incurred during the
process of transfering.
I look forward to your earliest reply.
Regards and God Blessed.
Mr. David Wood.
+226 78505308
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