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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: "Leu Cheng" <leu_cheng_1@msn.com>
Reply-To: leu5cheng@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 19:25:13 +0000
Subject: YOUR REPLY
Leu Cheng
TSB Pacific Limited
Hong Kong Branch
Thank you for giving me your time. Please be patient and read my email to
you.
I am a staff of TSB Group attached in private Banking Services. I am
contacting you concerning a customer and, an investment placed under our
banks management 3 years ago, I contacted you independently of our
investigation and no one is informed of this communication and I would like
to intimate you with certain facts that I believe would be of interest to
you.
In 2000, the subject matter; ref: bb/tsb/bank/73 came to our bank to engage
in business discussions with our Private Banking Services Department. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of 8.35 million United States
Dollars, which he wished to have us turn over 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
Services Department, 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 advice to customers is to start by
assessing data on 600 traditional stocks and bond managers and 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 10 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 requiring cash payments in Europe. He directed that I
liquidate the funds and had it deposited with a firm in Europe. I informed
him that our bank 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
borders has become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I
contacted my affiliate in Europe and had the funds available in main land
Europe. I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise
instructions to the letter and had the funds deposited in a security
consultancy firm, the 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. 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 2002. In
June last year, we got a call from the security firm 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, and I could not
understand why he had not come forward to claim his deposit. I made futile
efforts to locate him I immediately passed the task of locating him to the
internal investigations department of our bank. Four days later, information
started to trickle in, that he was apparently 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. In line with the internal processes for account holders
who have passed away, an investigation was instituted in good faith to
determine who should have right to claim this fund since the Depositor left
no Next of kin or Will. This investigation has for the past months been
unfruitful. Every continent has been scanned and also by means of private
investigation affiliate companies to get to find any immediate relative and
our search has been unfruitful and has now come to a close. It is this
investigation that resulted in my being furnished with your details. All
that is actually required to successfully claim this fund is for you to act
as the benefactor of this fund.
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; he died in testate. 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 US$ 14,000,000.00 deposited, I alone
have the deposit details and this will be release to no one unless I
instruct them to do so. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as
far as the finance firm, the transaction with our deceased customer
concluded when I sent the funds to the firm, all outstanding interactions in
relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The finance
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. I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct the
finance 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 half and no more. 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.
If you give me positive signals, I will initiate this process towards a
conclusion. I await your quick response.
Sincerely,
Leu Cheng
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