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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: "Mark Allen" <markallen_hsbc@business-solutionsworld.net>
Reply-To: markallen_hsbc@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:36:12 +0000
Subject: I await your response.
From The Desk of: Mark Allen
Head of Trustee and Depository
Institutional Fund ServiceS.
HSBC Bank Plc 24th Floor
8 Canada Square London E14 5hq.
21TH Of June 2005.
Dear Sir,
Compliment of the season to you. First for confirmation please view HSBC
site address:
http://www.cibm.hsbc.com/hsbc/home/contact-us/europe/united-kingdom?mode«int
note also that all call to every department are monitored and because of the
nature of the transaction. I am Mr.Mark Allen, Head of Trustee and
Depository Institutional Fund Services HSBC Bank London,I am contacting you
concerning a deceased customer,and an investment he placed under our banks
management 3years ago.I would respectfully request that you keep the
contents of this mail confidential and respect the integrity of the
information you come by as a result of this mail. I contact you
independently and no one is informed of this communication.I would like to
intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to you.
In 2000, the subject matter came to our bank to engage in business
discussions with our Trustee and Depository Institutional Fund Services
division HSBC . He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 14.5
million British Pounds Sterling, which he wished to have us turn over
(invest) on his behalf.I was the officer assigned to his case,I made
numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief operations
officer of Trustee and Depository Institutional Fund Services division HSBC,
especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our division.
Based on my advice, We spun the money around various opportunities and made
attractive margins for our first months of operation, the accrued profit and
interest stood at this point at over 6 million British Pounds Sterling,this
margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk
guaranteed returns on investments. I informed him that HSBC Bank Plc London
would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not
to circumvent due process, the bank would have to make a 9.5 % deduction
from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges. He complained
about the charges but later came around when I explained to him the
complexities of the task he was asking of us. Large cash movements have
become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I contacted my
affiliate and had the funds available as he had requested. I undertook all
the processes and made sure I followed his precise instructions to the
letter and had the funds deposited with a security consultancy firm.This
security firm is an especially private firm that accepts deposits from high
net worth individuals and blue chip corporations that handle valuable
products or undertake transactions that need immediate access to cash. This
small and highly private organization is familiar especially to the highly
placed and well-connected organizations. In Line with instructions,the money
was deposited with them.He told me he wanted the money there in anticipation
of his arrival from Norway later that week. This was the last communication
we had, this transpired around 25th February 2004. I was the only one who
knew about the deposit at the security company, and I could not understand
why our client had not come forward to claim his deposit.I made futile
efforts to locate him,and i immediately passed the task of locating him to
the internal investigations department of HSBC Bank Plc.Four days later,
information started to trickle in, apparently our man was dead. A person who
suited his description was declared dead of a heart attack in Canne, South
of France. We were soon enough able to confirm all of this including cause
of death. The bank immediately launched an investigation into possible
surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward
to claim his estate. If you are familiar with private banking affairs, those
who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of
detachment from conventional processes. In his bio-data form, he listed no
next of kin.opening an account with us means no one will know of its
existence,accounts are rarely held under a name; depositors use numbers and
codes to make the accounts anonymous.It is quite clear now that our dear
fellow died with no known or identifiable family members. This leaves me as
the only person with the full picture of what the prevailing situation is in
relation to the deposit and the late beneficiary of the deposit. According
to practice,the security company will by the end of this year broadcast a
request for statements of claim to HSBC Bank plc, failing to receive viable
claims they will most probably revert the deposit to HSBC Bank Plc. This
will result in the money entering the HSBC Bank Plc accounting system . What
I wish to relate to you will smack of unethical practice but I want you to
understand something. It is only an outsider to the banking world who finds
the internal politics of the banking world berrational. The world of Trustee
and Depository Institutional Fund Services division HSBC especially is
fraught with huge rewards for those who sit upon certain chairs and oversee
certain portfolios. You should have begun by now to put together the general
direction of what I propose. There is 14,500,000.00 deposited in a security
company.I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit
to no one unless I instruct them to do so. This bank has spent great amounts
of money trying to track this man's family; they have investigated for
months and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My
proposal; you share similar details to the late fellow;I am prepared to
instruct the security company to release the deposit to you as the closest
surviving relation. Upon receipt of the deposit, I am prepared to share the
money with you in half. That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of
kin and have them release the deposit to you.We share the proceeds
45/45,while 10% is been maped out incase of any expenses as we proceed into
this MUTUAL transaction. You with the same very name as the original
depositor would easily pass as the beneficiary with right to claim.I assure
you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days.I will
simply inform the bank of the final closing of the file relating to our late
client.I will then officially communicate with the security company and
instruct them to release the deposit to you.With these two things: all is
done. The alternative would be for us to have the security company direct
the funds to another bank with you as account holder.This way there will be
no need for you to think of receiving the money directly from the security
company as it is not a conventional financial institution; they accept
deposits from only organizations thus; what you hand over to them is what
you get back. They do not have the means to process the money.I ask that you
do not destroy my chance, if you will not work with me let me know and let
me move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is
an opportunity to provide them with new opportunities.There is a reward for
this project and it is a task well worth undertaking.I have evaluated the
risks and the only risk I have here is from you refusing to work with me and
alerting my bank. I am the only one who knows of this situation, good
fortune has blessed you with a name that has planted you into the center of
relevance in my life. Lets share the blessing.If you find yourself able to
work with me,contact me A.S.A.P. If you give me positive signals,I will give
you the relevant details and initiate this process towards a conclusion.
Please, again, note I am a family man,I have wife and children.I send you
this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the onsequences, but I
know within me that nothing ventured is nothing gained and that success and
riches never come easy or on a platter of gold.This is the one truth I have
learned from my private banking clients. Do not betray my confidence. NOTE:
DON`T CONTACT ME ON DIRECTLY ON MY OFFICE LINE AS WHAT WE ARE DOING IS
CONFIDENTIAL. IF YOU DO I WILL DENY KNOWING YOU.
Sincerely,
Mark Allen
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