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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: "john freeman" <jnfreeman2005@smithfinanceandsecurities.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 00:23:10 +0000
Subject: from john freeman
I am John Freeman, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private Banking.I am
contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed
under our banks management four 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 2001, 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 Thirty 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 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.The favored route in my advise to customers is to start by assessing
data on 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of
alternative investments. 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 ten
million United States Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the
fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.In mid 2001,
he asked that the money be liquidated
because he needed to make an urgent investment quiring cash payments in here
in the united kingdom. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it
with a security firm. I informed him that SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 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 with the security firm. The Security Firm 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 firm.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 got a call
from the security firm informing us that 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 firm, 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 SMITH & WILLIAMSON.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 Canne,
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 will to his estate. 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. It is
this investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details as
a possible
relative of the deceased. 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 Firm will by the end of
this financial year broadcast a request for statements of claim to SMITH &
WILLIAMSON,failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert
the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON.This will result in the money
entering the SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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.There is Thirty million dollars deposited in a
security firm, 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 SMITH & WILLIAMSON is concerned, the
transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the
security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just
customer services and due process. The security Firm has no single idea of
what’s 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 the same surname With our late client; I am prepared
to place you in a position to instruct The security Firm 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 an agreed ratio. That
is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them release the
deposit to you. We share the proceeds as adreed.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. But on the other hand, 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 the deceased I will then officially communicate with The
Security Firm 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 Firm 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 from The Security Company. We can
fine-tune this based
on our interactions.I am aware of the consequences of this proposal. I ask
that if you find no interest in this project that you should discard this
mail. I ask that you do not be vindictive and destructive. If my offer is
of no appeal to you,delete this message and forget I ever contacted you. 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. These chances wont pass me by. 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 through
this email account [jnfreman@inMail24.com] 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,that is why it was not provided for now.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. Please,again, note I am a
family man, I have a wife and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to what the consequences, 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.
Kindly send your response to my private email address
jnfreman@inMail24.com
I await your response.
John Freeman.
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