Got an email today from someone who claims he is in Africa and I think this is a scam?
This is what it says:
FROM THE DESK OF DR.ADAMU ALI,
AUDITING AND ACCOUNTING MANEGER,
BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
OUAGADOUGOU-BURKINA FASO.
Dear Friend,
I am the manager of auditing and accounting at the foreign remittance
department of BANK OF AFRICA (B.O.A) here in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
In
my department we discovered an abandoned sum of USm dollars (Fifteen
Million US dollars) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign
customer (MR. ANDREAS SCHRANNER from Munich, Germany) who died along
with
his entire family in Jully 2000 in a plane crash.For more informations
about
the crash you can visit this site:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm
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
some body applies for it as next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidlings and laws 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 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 guidline here stipulates that if such money
remained
unclaimed after seven years, the money will be transfered into the
bank
treasury as unclaimed fund. The request of foreigner as next of kin in
this
business is occassioned by the fact that the customer was a foreigner
and a
Burkinabe cannot stand as next of kin to a foreigner.
I agree that 30% of this money will be for you as a respect to the
provision
of a foriegn account ,10% will be set aside for expenses incurred
during the
business and 60% would be for me Thereafter, I will visit your country
for
disbursement according to the percentage indicated Therefore, to enable
the
immediate transfer of this fund to you arranged,you must apply first to
the
bank as relation or next of kin of the deceased with a text of
application
that i will send to you,so i will like you to send to me 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 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. You should
contact me
immediately as soon as you receive this letter.
Trusting to hear from you immediately.
Yours Faithfully,
1. NAME IN FULL:…………………………..
2. ADDRESS:…………………………………
3. NATIONALITY:……………………………..
4. AGE:………………………………………
5. Sex……………………………………….
6. OCCUPATION:………………………………..
7. MARITAL STATUS:…………………………….
8. PHONE……………………………………..
9. FAX:………………………………………
DR.ADAMU ALI OF AFRICA (B.O.A)
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It is a scam. All of those things coming from Africa are scams. Oprah recently did a whole show on it, as did Dateline NBC. Do not reply to this and do not give any personal information out in an email unless it was something initiated by you.
Big time scam – do not bite.
ok its a varity of the classic nigerian email scam. They use this to get your bank account with the guise of using your account to transfer the funds. then they take it all and run with all your money
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I got that e-mail too and a couple more like them. I forwarded it to the local news station here in Houston and they said they’re going to investigate. It’s definately a scam.
I dont get it because well he doesnt ask for money does he? And im sure that if he actually had all that money and he could keep 60% why not keep it all? I actually think if this is real the money should go to Charity.. Anywho i dont see why u are so special ( no to be mean) its gatta be a scam… It dont make sence.. He would have left a phone number & an adress.. Do not go for it..
Scam. Ignore it.
definite scam. i am getting so many of these including Microsoft saying I am a winner. DO NOT OPEN e-mail. report it as spam.
big scam, but i would get the agreement and send it back to them saying f off!