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The message below is an example of a next-of-kin/abandoned-account scam. The scammer claims to have access to an abandoned bank account, and if you’ll pose as the next of kin, he’ll split the money with you. Alas, there really is no abandoned bank account: there’s just a scammer trying to pick your pocket.
i am (Mr zahoor halwa) a banker by profession from Burkina Faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Audits and Account manager i have the opportunity of transferring the left over sum of ($10.5 Million Dollars) that belongs to late Mr Rudi Harmanto from Indonesia who died along with his entire family in the Asia Earth Quake (TSUNAMI, DISASTER IN INDONESIA / INDIA. 2004, and since then the fund has been in a suspense account. Because of the static of this transaction i want you to stand as the next of kin so that our bank will accord you their recognition and have the fund transfer to your account.
this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 50/50;
However, further details of this transaction and the text of application form will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail. I am waiting for your immediate response as you receive this mail.
Your Full Name………
Your Country………..
Your Personal Mobile Number………
Your Age……………….
Your Sex……………….
Thanks
zahoor halwa
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This is a classic example of the old “dying widow scam,” complete with gold traders, a rich dead husband, and secret African bank accounts, all courtesy of “your sick sister in Christ.” It may be hard to believe that people fall for these messages, but it’s clear that some people do, because if they didn’t, the scammers wouldn’t still be sending them.
I know that this letter may be a very big surprise to you, I came across your email contact from my personal search and I instructed the doctor here in this hospital to help me email you and i believe that you will be honest to fulfill my final wish before i will die.
I am Mrs. Yeety Bayarmaa, I am 66 years old, From Benin, and I am suffering from a long time cancer of the breast. From all indication my condition is really deteriorating, and my doctors have courageously advised me that I may not live beyond 3 month; this is because the cancer has reached a critical stage.
I was married to late Dr Bayramaa Altangerel, gold & diamond exportation in Burkina Faso, West Africa, where we live all our Lives for Thirty-two years before he died in the year2004. But is quite unfortunately, He died after a Cardiac Arteries Operation that lasted only for four days.
Since his death I decided not to re-marry, I deposited all the sum of $5.8million dollars with a INSTUTITION here in Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso, where we spend our life together in Burkina Faso.
Presently, this money is still in their custody, and the management just wrote me as the Legitimate beneficiary to come forward to receive the money after keeping it for so long or rather issue a letter of authorization to somebody to receive it on my behalf since I cannot come over as a result of my illness, or they get it confiscated.
Presently, I’m with my laptop in a hospital where I have been undergoing treatment. I have since lost my ability to do anything myself and my doctors have told me that I have only 3 month to live.
Now that i am about to end the race like this, without any family members and no child. It is my last wish to see that this money is invested, but you will assure me that you will take 50% of the money and give 50% to the orphanages home in your country for my heart to rest.
I want your good humanitarian, to also use this money to fund churches, orphanages and widows around. I must let you know that this was a very hard decision, but I had to take a bold step towards this issue because I have no further option. I hope you will help see my last wishes come true you can. contact me here yeety.bayarmaa@o2.pl
As soon as I receive your reply I shall give you the contact of the INSTUTITION. I will also issue you a letter of authority which will prove that you are the new beneficiary of this funds, and the documents concerning the deposit. Please assure me that you will act accordingly as I stated here. i. Hope to hear from you soonest. I am waiting for your response. through my private email-yeety.bayarmaa@o2.pl
Yours Sick Sister in Christ,
Mrs. Yeety Bayarmaa
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This is a classic “rich orphan” scam. The improbably named “Gifty Younes” has discovered that her dead parents have left her a fortune in a bank in Burkina Faso, and she needs your help in getting it to safety. Sounds plausible, doesn’t it? I’m sure that handling million dollar transactions with banks in Africa is something you do every day!
reply-to: giftyyounes@gmail.com
date: Mon, 04 Jan 16
subject: My Dearest, i need your help
from: silvian@speedy.com.ar
Good Day,
Forgive my indignation if this message comes to you as a surprise and may offend your personality for contacting you without your prior consent and writing through this channel.
I came across your name and contact on the course of my personal searching When i was searching for a foreign reliable partner. I assured of your capability and reliability After going true your profile
I’m (Miss. Gifty) from Benghazi libya, My father of blessed memory by name late General Abdel Fattah Younes who was shot death by Islamist-linked militia within the anti-Gaddafi forces on 28th July, 2011 and after two days later my mother with my two brothers was killed one early morning by the rebels as result of civil war that going on in my country Libya, then after the burial of my parents, my uncles conspired and sold my father’s properties and left nothing for me. On a faithful morning, I opened my father’s briefcase and discover a document which he has deposited ($6.250M USD) in a bank in Burkina Faso with my name as the legitimate/next of kin.
Meanwhile i have located the bank,and have also discussed the possible transfer of the fund. My father left a clause to the bank that i must introduce a trusted foreign partner who would be my trustee to help me invest this fund; hence the need for your assistance,i request that you be my trustee and assist me in effecting the transfer of the fund to your account or an account you will nominate for investment.
You will also be responsible for the investment and management of the fund for me and also you will help me get a good school where i will further my education.
I agreed to give you 40% of the 6.250M once the transfer is done. this is my true life story, I will be glad to receive your respond soonest for more details to enable us start and champion the transfer less than 14 bank working days as told me by the bank manager.
Waiting for your early reply
reply To giftyyounes@gmail.com
yours sincerely
Miss. Gifty Younes
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The message below is an example of a typical “rich orphan” scam. “Sivia Ibrahim” has inherited a fortune from her late father, and needs someone to help take care of her. Who wouldn’t want to help an orphan? Unfortunately, “Silvia” is just a scammer, probably working from a cheap Internet cafe somewhere in Africa. She (if she’s actually a she) is not rich, and not an orphan. “She” only wants to find a way to pick your pocket.
Sender: r_20d01@yahoo.co.jp
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015
From: Ms Sivia Ibrahim tw200847@gmail.com
Reply-To: Ms Sivia Ibrahim mssiviaibrahim@yandex.com
Subject: Reply me; My Dearest, i need your help
Good Day Dearest.
I greet you in the name of God, I am Miss Sivia Ibrahim Coulibaly 23 years old female from the Republic of Ivory Coast, West Africa, I’m the Daughter of Late Chief Ibrahim Coulibaly, My late Father was a well known Ivory Coast military leader. He died on Thursday 28 April 2011 following a fight with the Republican of Ivory oast (FRCI).
I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment which I am receiving from my step mother. She planned to take away all my late father’s treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father because my mother died during child birth and I was left alone with my step mother to take care of me. Meanwhile I wanted to travel to Europe, but she hide away my traveling documents. Luckily she did not discover where I kept my father’s File which contained important documents like will and deposit certificate of my Father’s fund which bears my name as the next of kin to inherit the money in his bank account. Now I am presently staying in the Refugee Mission Camp in Burkina Faso. I am seeking for long term relationship and investment assistance. My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$ 11.5 Million in Bank Of Africa here in Burkina Faso with my name as the next of kin.
I have contacted the Bank to clear the deposit but the Branch Manager told me that my late father place an instruction on the deposited fund that I must present a foreign trustee who will help me in investment of the fund.However, the manager advised me to provide a trustee who will stand on my behalf for the transfer of the fund. I wanted to inform my stepmother about this deposit but I am afraid that she will not offer me anything after the release of the money because she threaten to kill me.Therefore, I decide to seek for your help in transferring the money into your bank account while I will relocate to your country and settle down with you. As you indicate your interest to help me I will give you the account number and the contact of the bank where my late beloved father deposited the money with my name as the next of kin.
You will also be responsible for the investment and management of the fund for me and also you will help me get a good school where i will further my education.I agreed to give you 40% of the 11.5Million once the transfer is done. this is my true life story, I will be glad to receive your respond soonest for more details to enable us start and champion the transfer less than 14 bank working days as told me by the bank manager.
Yours sincerely
Ms Sivia Ibrahim Coulibaly
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This is a classic example of the old “abandoned bank account scam.” If you learn to recognize the usual components you can avoid getting caught in the fraudsters’ traps.
The person sending the message, “Madi Hamidou Madi,” claims to be a bank official who has discovered an abandoned account with money in it. (This is usually in a bank somewhere in Africa.) If you’ll just help him to get this money out of the country you can have a percentage. And after all, the money is abandoned, so we’re not really hurting anyone, right?
Unfortunately there is really no abandoned bank account and no deceased bank customer. There’s only a scammer running an advance fee fraud who is trying to pick your pocket.
My names are:Mr. Madi Hamidou Madi, a banker in one of the banks in my country Burkina Faso in African.I Hoped that you will not expose or betray this trust and confident that i am about to repose on you for the mutual benefit of our both families.I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of $ 5 million U.S dollars ( Five million U.S dollars) into your account.The money has been dormant for yearas in our Bank here without any body coming for it.I want to release the money to you as the nearest person to our deceased customer(the owner of the account)who died a long witah his supposed next of kin few years ago.I don’t want the money to go into our Bank treasury account as unclaimed fund. So this is the reason why i contacted you, so that we will release the money to you as the nearest person to the deceased customer.Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret or delete it from your mail box ,if you are not interested. Urgent reply e-mail address is (mrmadihamidoumadi01@yandex.com).
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This is a classic example of the famous “dormant bank account of a foreign plane crash victim” scam. “Dr. Rhama Wahhab” works for a bank in which “John Korovo” deposited a fortune. He died in a plane crash and now the money is abandoned. If you’ll just help to get it out of the country you can have a percentage. Unfortunately, the only thing “Dr. Wahhab” is really interested in is picking your pocket.
Reply-To: drrhamawahhab42@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015
Subject: PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.
From: Dr Rhama Wahhab rhamawahhab44@gmail.com
PLEASE I NEED YOUR URGENT RESPONSE.
My Dear Respective Partner I hope you are doing well with your family? Dear. I got your contact through when I was searching for a foreign partner, although I don’t know if you can keep this transaction personally secret till you confirm it into your bank account, Well I have a fund worth 5.5m$ from the dormant account in the bank where I am working, How ever the fund belong to Mr John. korovo he died years ago through aeroplane crash with his entire family, Please if you can keep this transaction secret I will give you more details of it,
No risk involve, hence I work in the same bank, till you confirm the fund in your bank account, Contact me for more details, As soon as I hear from you, your full name, and your phone No, and your Receiver Country, and your Occupation, and your Date of Birth, thanks for your understand please contact me, base if you can control this fund once it transferred into your account before my family and I will arrive from my Country Burkina Faso to your Country, Dear Partner I will give you 50% of this money for your assistance while 10% will be set aside for expenses incurred during the execution of this deal and 50% will be for me. and If you can handle this fund go ahead and fill your information and call me in my private telephone number for verbal discussions +226 6144 0135
Please Contact me Through This my private E-mail: Address (drrhamawahhab42@gmail.com) get back to me so that I will give you more details, am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible.
(1) Your Name
(2) Your Occupation
(3) Your Phone Number
(4) Date of Birth
(5) Resident Country
I will provide you with further information as soon as I hear positively from you. am waiting to hear from you as soon as possible so that I will proceed to the bank to finalize the transfer. Thanks,
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The message below is an example of a standard African advance fee fraud message, although it’s a long one. “Dr. Ibrahim Aziz” claims to be a bank official with access to a fortune in a forgotten bank account. If you’ll just help him get it out of the country he’ll cut you in on the proceeds. In reality, if you take the bait you’ll find that he needs you to provide “transaction fees” or “money for bribes” to help the deal move along. And then once he’s got these fees from you, he’ll vanish, never to be heard from again.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2015 01:22:14 -0400
From: Dr Ibrahim Aziz dribrahimaziz01@gmail.com
Reply-to: dribrahimaziz2@gmail.com
ASSALAMU’ALAYKUM!!!!!
With due respect to your person and much sincerity of purpose, I make this contact with you as I believe that you can be of great assistance to me. My name is Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz, from Ouagadougou Republic of BURKINA FASO , West Africa . Presently I work in the African development Bank as telex manager. I have been searching for your contact since you left our country some years ago.I do not know whether this is your correct email address or not because I only used your name initials to search for your contact. In case you are not the person I am supposed to contact, please see this as a confidential message and do not reveal it to another person but if you are not the intended receiver, do let me know whether you can be of assistance regarding my proposal below because it is top secret.
I am about to retire from active Bank service to start a new life but I am sceptical to reveal this particular secret to a stranger. You must assure me that everything will be handled confidentially because we are not going to suffer again in life. It has been 10 years now that most of the greedy African Politicians used our bank to launder money overseas through the help of their Political advisers. Most of the funds which they transferred out of the shores of Africa were gold and oil money that was supposed to have been used to develop the continent. Their Political advisers always inflated the amounts before transfer to foreign accounts so I also used the opportunity to divert part of the funds hence I am aware that there is no official trace of how much was transferred as all the accounts used for such transfers were being closed after transfer.
I acted as the Bank Officer to most of the politicians and when I discovered that they were using me to succeed in their greedy act; I also cleaned some of their banking records from the Bank files and no one cared to ask me because the money was too much for them to control. They laundered over $5b Dollars during the process. As I am sending this message to you, I was able to divert thirty five million united state dollars ($35m) to an escrow account belonging to no one in the bank. The bank is anxious now to know who the beneficiary to the funds is because they have made a lot of profits with the funds.
It is more than Eight years now and most of the politicians are no longer using our bank to transfer funds overseas. The ($35) Million Dollars has been LAYING waste but I don’t want to retire from the bank without transferring the funds to a foreign account to enable me share the proceeds with the receiver. The money will be shared 60% for me and 40% for you.There is no one coming to ask you about the funds because I secured everything. I only want you to assist me by providing a bank account where the funds can be transferred. You are not to face any difficulties or legal implications as I am going to handle the transfer personally. If you are capable of receiving the funds, do let me know immediately to enable me give you DETAILED information on what to do. For me, I have not stolen the money from anyone because the other people that took the whole money did not face any problems. This is my chance also to grab my own but you must keep the details of the funds secret to avoid any leakages as no one in the bank knows about the funds.
Please get back to me if you are interested and capable to handle this project I shall intimate you on what to do when I hear from your confirmation and acceptance. If you are capable of being my trusted associate, do declare your consent to me.
Waiting for your urgent response.
Yours Faithfully,
Dr. Ibrahim Abdoul Aziz
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Short and to the point: Mr. Kareem has access to an abandoned fortune, and if you help, he’ll cut you in on the deal. What could go wrong? For “Mr. Kareem,” once he has your money in his pocket, nothing at all!
from Kareem michelkareem@hotmail.com
reply-to michelkareem0@voila.fr
date Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:57 AM
subject REPLY ME IMMEDIATELY
Dear Friend
Greetings to you and your family, I am Mr Michel Kareem the Auditing and Accounting section manager in AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (A.D.B) Ouagadougou Burkina faso. I need your urgent assistance in transferring the sum of ($39.5) million to your account within 10 or 14 banking days. This money has been dormant for years in our Bank with out claim. So this is the reason why i contacted you so that the bank can release the money to you as the next of kin to the deceased customer. Please I would like you to keep this proposal as a top secret and delete it if you are not interested. Upon receipt of your reply, i will give you full details on how the business will be executed I am expecting your urgent response.
Best Regard.
Mr Michel Kareem
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This is an example of the familiar plane crash scam, in which a dead millionaire has left behind a fortune in a bank that no one knows about. (It’s refreshing to see an example that doesn’t involve the ubiquitous Andreas Schranner.) Poor Mr. Hoffman won’t miss his money, of course, because he’s dead, so if you just help this “audit manager” get the money out of the country he’ll cut you in. Of course it will take some of your money up front to get the wheels turning — he didn’t mention that part — and then once you’ve paid the advance fee, “Mr. Mujahideen” will disappear, never to be heard from again.
from Alfatah mujahideen alfatahmujahideen1@gmail.com
reply-to alfatahmujahideen101@gmail.com
date Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:35 AM
subject HANDLE THIS INFORMATION VERY URGENT AND CALL ME +226 787 62 077
FROM MR ALFATAH MUJAHIDEEN
MANAGER AUDIT AND ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT
BANK OF AFRICA( B.O.A )
BURKINAFASO W/AFRICA
PLEASE READ CAREFULLY
HOW ARE YOU TOGETHER WITH YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS?
This message might meet you in utmost surprise. However, it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction.
I am Mr. Alfatah Mujahideen, Manager Audit Accounting Department BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) I would like to know if this proposal will be worth while for your acceptance.
I have a Foreign Customer, Manfred Hoffman from Germany who was an Investor, Crude Oil Merchant and Federal Government Contractor he was a victim with Concord Air Line, flight AF4590 killing 113 peole crashed on 25 July 2000 near Paris leaving a closing balance of Nineteen Million Three Hundred Thousand United States Dollars ($19.3m) in one of his Private US Dollar Account that was been managed by me as the Customer’s Account Officer.
Base on my security report, these funds can be claime without any hitches as no one is aware of the funds and it’s closing balance except me and the customer who is (Now Deceased) therefore, I can present you as the Next of Kin and we will work out the modalities for the claiming of the funds in accordance with the law.
Now,if you are really sure of your trustworthy,accountability and confidentiality on this transaction without dissapointment, contact me through email for further details.i expect your letter. Besides,it is not authorized by the law guiding our bank for a citizen of Burkina Faso to make the claim of the fund.
If you are interested, Please call me to discuss in further details and Please indicate your willingness by sending me below information for more clarifications our sharing ratio will be 50% for me and 40% for you.while 10% will be for the neccesary expenses that might occur along the line. +226 787 62 077
(1) YOUR FULL NAME…………………………..
(2) YOUR AGE AND SEX……………………….
(3) YOUR CONTACT ADDRESS………………
(4) YOUR TEL AND FAX NUMBER…………..
(5) YOUR COUNTRY OF ORIGIN………………
( 6) YOUR OCCUPATION…………………………..
( 7) COUNTRY RISIDING NOW…………………
(8) MARITAL STATUS…………………..
(9) YOUR RELIGION………………………
best regards to you and your family.
Thank you,
Sincerely
Alfatah Mujahideen.
N.B.In other for you to beleive me honestly try and go through this (website) before you start with me.
Below is the website.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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This is a standard “abandoned account” scam featuring yet another bank customer who died in a plane crash. Does it really come from Burkina Faso? Perhaps. But that makes a good story, no? There’s one thing you can be sure of: “Mr Ahmed Muda” is after your money.
from: Mr Ahmed Muda (ahmedmuda01@walla.com)
date: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:13 AM
subject: FROM THE DESK OF :MR AHMED MUDA
FROM THE DESK OF :MR AHMED MUDA
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING SECTION
BANK OF AFRICAN ( B.O.A )
OUAGADOUGOU BURKINA-FASO,
WEST AFRICA.
Attention Please,
This message might meet you in utmost surprise, however,it’s just my urgent need for foreign partner that made me to contact you for this transaction. I am a banker by profession from Burkina faso in west Africa and currently holding the post of Director Auditing and Accounting unit of the bank.
I have the opportunity of transfering the left over funds ($15.6million) of one of my bank clients who died along with his entire family on 21 july 2003 in a plane crash.You can confirm the genuiness of the deceased death by clicking on this web site
Hence,i am inviting you for a business deal where this money can be shared between us in the ratio of 60/30 while 10% will be mapped out for expenses.If you agree to my business proposal.further details of the transfer will be forwarded to you as soon as i receive your return mail,have a great day.
Make sure you keep this transaction as your top secret and make it confidential till we receives the fund into the account that you will provide to the bank. Do not disclose it to any body, because the secrecy of this transaction is as well as the success of it. REPLY TO ahmed_muda123@yahoo.fr
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