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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" <kb4u@pconsultltd.com>
Reply-To: k_brader@in-box.net
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:22:44 +0000
Subject: REPLY ASAP
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 here
in 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 alternativewould 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.
Do not betray my confidence. Due to cautious reasons,reply to me
securely through this email address(kbrader@ozu.es)
I await your response.
Kind regards,
Karl Brader.
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