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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: "nikiema frank" <nikiemafrank1@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:16:00 +0100
Subject: Please get back to me asap.
Hello
I am the head of Accounts and Audit Department of Bank of
Africa,Ouagadougou.Burkina faso .i decided to contact you after a
careful thought that you may be capable of handling this business
transaction which i explained below;
In my department we discovered an abandoned sum of $10.5m US dollars
(Ten 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 1998 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 it
as next of kin or relation to the deceased as indicated in our banking
guidelines but unfortunately we learnt that his supposed next of
kin(his son and wife) 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 (We want to present you as his business associate )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.
Therefore to enable the immediate transfer of this fund to your
account as arranged,you must apply first to the bank as next of kin of
the deceased customer.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.
I expect that get back to me for more details immediately you receive
this letter.
Hoping to hear from you immediately on my private mail
nikiema_fra@yahoo.fr<http://fr.mc243.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nikiema_fra@yahoo.fr>
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Yours faithfully,
Nikiema Frank
Accounts & Audit Department ,
Bank of Africa
nikiema_fra@yahoo.fr<http://fr.mc243.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=nikiema_fra@yahoo.fr>
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