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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: "monica andrew" <monica.andrew3@gmail.com>
Reply-To: monica_andrew01@hotmail.fr
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:35:20 +0200
Subject: PLEASE REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY
FROM THE DESK OF MRS MONICA ANDREW
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
OUAGADOUGOU, BURKINA FASO.
CONFIDENTIAL.
Dear Friend ,
Iam the manager of bill and exchange at the foreign remittance departmentof
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 anabandoned sum of $ 15.200 000
US dollars (million US dollars) . In anaccount 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 Six to Seven years, 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 aforeigner and
a Burkinable cannot stand as next of kin to aforeigner.
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 willvisit your country for
disbursement according to the percentage sindicated.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to you as arranged,
you must apply first to the bank as relationsor 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 atomof 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 MONICA ANDREW
BILL AND EXCHANGE MANAGER,
BANK OF AFRICA-(BOA)
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