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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: "xiao gang" <xiaogang@bankoverseaschinese.net>
Reply-To: xiao_gangbooc@yahoo.com.tw
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:55:10 +0000
Subject: Beneficial Proposition
FROM THE DESK OF:
MR XIAO GANG,
BANK OF OVERSEAS CHINESE
NORTH SHYN LIN DISTRICT
TAIPEI,TAIWAN.
Dear Friend,
How are you today and business in your country? I am Mr Xiao Gang,Bank
Manager, Bank Of Overseas Chinese North Shyn Lin District, Taipei, Taiwan. 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 know you would be wondering why
I am writing you with a request such as this but I only urge you to read on.
Sometime in 1998, a British Oil consultant/contractor with the Chinese Solid
Minerals Corporation, Mr. Robert Rice made a numbered time (Fixed) Deposit
of the sum of US$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars) which
accumulated to the sum of US$30,000,000.00 (Thirty Million, United States
Dollars for twelve calendar months in my branch. Upon maturity, I sent a
routine notification to his forwarding address in America and Britain but
got no reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered
from his contract employers, the Chinese Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr.
Robert Rice died alongside his wife, from an airplane crash. Further proof
of the death of Mr. Robert Rice is in the following web pages for you to
make confirmations and further research about his death:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/egyptair/article/0,2763,196602,00.html
http://www.zenpageweavers.com/malikahti/journal/flight.htm
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. Private banking
clients apart from not nominating any next of kin also usually in most cases
leave WILLS in our care, in this case; Mr. Robert Rice died intestate.
In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed
away, my bank conducted a search in good faith to determine who should have
right to claim the estate. This has for the past months been unfruitful.
This sum has since been sitting in my bank and the interest is being rolled
over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one it is evident is
going to come forward for it.
According to the Laws of Republic of China, at the expiration of 7 (Seven)
years, the money will revert to the ownership of the Chinese Government if
nobody applies to claim the funds. 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 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$30,000,000.00 deposited in my bank, I alone have the
deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one unless evidence
of relationship with the deceased, which I shall provide you with, is
presented. I alone know of the existence of this deposit for as far as Bank
of China is concerned, the bank's management 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. Consequently, my proposal is that I
will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin to Mr. Robert
Rice so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands
of some corrupt government officials. Acting in this capacity really is
simple, all you have to do is provide your full names and address so that an
attorney here can prepare the necessary documents and affidavits that will
put you in place as the next of kin. We shall employ the services of an
attorney for drafting and notarization of the WILL and to obtain the
necessary authentication, approval and a letter of probate/administration in
your favour for the transfer to be done. A bank account in any part of the
world that you then provide me with will then facilitate the transfer of
this money to you as the beneficiary/next of kin. The money will be paid
into your account for us to share 60/40.
Being aware of this request I am making, 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. You may not know this but people
like me 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. If you will not work with me let me
know and I will move on with my life but do not destroy me. I am a family
man and this is an opportunity to provide my family with new opportunities.
The reward for this project makes 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.
My position as the Branch Manager guarantees the successful execution of
this transaction. If you find yourself able to work with me, I urge you to
indicate to that effect by contacting me through this email address. Upon
your response, if favourable, I shall then provide you with more details and
relevant information that will help you get full understanding of this.
I wish to inform you that should you contact me via official channels; I
will deny knowing you and about this project. 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, again, note I
am a family man; I have a wife and children, 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. If we can be of one
accord, we should plan a meeting, soon.
In closing, please observe utmost confidentiality, and be rest assured that
this transaction would be most profitable for both of us. After receiving
your reply, I will then furnish you with a more comprehensive detail of this
transaction and what is required.
Awaiting your urgent reply.
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Xiao Gang.
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