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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: "rebecca patrick" <rebeccapatrick04@gmail.com>
Reply-To: rebecca_patrick@voila.fr
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:35:14 +0000
Subject: PLEASE GET BACK TO ME URGENTLY.
FROM THE DESK OF MRS.REBECCA PATRICK.
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance department
of Bank Of Africa.(BOA) I am writing following the impressive information
about you through one of my friends who runs a consultancy firm in your
country. He assured me of your capability and reliability to champion this
business opportunity. In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $
15.200 000 US dollars (million US dollars) . In an account that belongs to
one of our foreign customer who died along with his entire family in
November 2000 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 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 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 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 Eight to Nine years an above, 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.
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 incurred during the business and 60 %would be for ;me and my
colleagues. There after and my colleagues will visit your country for
disbursement according 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 no 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. Yours faithfully
MRS.REBECCA PATRICK.
Bill and exchange manager,
Bank of Africa.(BOA)
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