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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: "karl brader" <kbrader@rbabanken.net>
Reply-To: kb200@in-box.net
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:05:40 +0000
Subject: GrXXe vom karl
Dear Friend,
I am karl Brader, staff of International Private Banking at RBA Banken,
bern, switzerland. I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an
investment he placed under our banks management three years 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 contacted you independently of our investigation 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 private banking division.He informed us that
he had a financial portfolio of Twenty One Million United States Dollars,
which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf. I was the
officer assigned to his case, I was made numerous suggestions in line with
my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of the private banking
sector, especially given the volume of funds he wished to put into our bank.
We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being placed. I
encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime ratings.
In mid 2001, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make
an urgent investment requiring cash payments here in the United Kingdom. He
directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm in
here Europe. I informed him that RBA Banken 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. Cash movement across boarders has become especially strict
since the incidents of 9/11.
I contacted my affiliate in here in bern and made the funds available to the
security firm. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his
precise instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited at the
security consultancy firm, This is a specialist 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 the Security Co.
The deceased 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 2003. In June last year, we were
contacted by the Security Co informing us of the inactivity of that
particular portfolio. This was an astounding position as far as I was
concerned, given the fact that I managed the private banking sector I was
the only one who knew about the deposit at the Security Co, and I could not
understand why the deceased had not come forward to claim his deposit. I
made futile efforts to locate the deceased. I immediately passed the task of
locating him to the internal investigations department of RBA Banken. Four
days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our client was
dead. A person who suited his description was declared dead of a heart
attack in Cannes, South of France.
We were soon enough able to identify the body and cause of death was
confirmed. 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. In the field of private banking,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. This bank also gives the choice to depositors of having their
mail sent to them or held at the bank itself, ensuring that there are no
traces of the account and as I said, rarely do they nominate next of kin.
Private banking clients apart from not nominating next of kin also usually
in most cases leave wills in our care, in this case the deceased died
without a testate. In line with our internal processes for account holders
who have passed away, we instituted our own investigations in good faith to
determine who should have right to claim the estate. This investigation has
for the past months been unfruitful. We have scanned every continent and
used our private
investigation affiliate companies to get to the root of the problem.
My official capacity dictates that I am the only party to supervise the
investigation and the only party to receive the results of the
investigation. What this means, you being the last batch of names we have
considered, is that our dear late fellow died with no known or identifiable
family member. 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 Co will by the end of this financial year broadcast a request for
statements of claim to RBA,failing to receive viable claims they will most
probably revert the deposit back to RBA Banken. This will result in the
money entering the RBA. accounting system and the portfolio will be out of
my hands and out of the private banking division. This will not happen if I
have my way. 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
aberrational. The world of private banking especially is fraught with huge
rewards for those who occupy certain offices and oversee certain portfolios.
You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I
propose.I alone have the deposit details and they will release the deposit
to no one unless I instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of
this deposit for as far as H. Henchoz & Cie. is concerned, the transaction
with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the security co,
all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer
services and due process. The Security Co has no single idea of what is the
history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to
release the deposit to any party that comes forward. This is the situation.
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
place you in a position to instruct Security Co 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 50/50. I would have gone ahead to ask the funds be
released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my
involvement in claiming the deposit. 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 the deceased I will then
officially communicate with the Security Co and instruct them to release the
deposit to you. With these two things: all is done. The alternative
would be for us to have Security Co direct the funds to another bank with
you as account holder. Do not destroy my career because you do not approve
of my proposal. You may not know this but people like myself who have made
tidy sums out of comparable situations run the whole private banking sector.
I am not a criminal and what I do, I do not find against good
conscience, this may be hard for you to understand, but the dynamics of my
industry dictates that I make this move. Such opportunities only come ones'
way once in a lifetime. I cannot let this chance pass me by, for once I find
myself in total control of my destiny.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official
channels; I will deny knowing you and about this project. I repeat, I do not
want you contacting me through my official phone lines nor do I want you
contacting me through my official email account. Contact me only
through the numbers I will provide for you and also through this email
address. I do not want any direct link between you and me. My official lines
are not secure lines as they are periodically monitored to assess our level
of customer care in line with our Total Quality Management Policy. Please
observe this instruction religiously.
Due to cautious reasons, reply to me securely through this email address(
kb002@ozu.es ) I await your response to this proposal. Do not betray my
confidence.
Kind regards,
Karl Brader.
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