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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: "Jacob Mouton" <jacobmouton@jacobmouton.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:30:19 +0000
Subject: Please reply
Jacob Mouton
UBS South Africa (Pty) Ltd.
Thank you for giving me your time.
Please be patient and read my email to you.I am a staff of UBS South
Africa,attached in Private Banking Services.
I am contacting you concerning a customer and investment placed under
our banks management 3 years ago, I am contacting 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; ref: ad/UBS/bank/55 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 12.3 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 15 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 latter 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 Us 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.
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.
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 US13,500,000.00 deposited, 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 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.
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;
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.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, would easily pass as the beneficiary solo with
the rights to claim. I assure you that I could have the deposit released to
you in a few days. I will simply inform our bank of the final closing of
the file relating to the customer. I will then officially communicate with
the finance company 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 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 firm.
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 or 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 I hope you understand because for
once I found myself in total control and face to face with my destiny.
These chance won't 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. Let's share
the blessing.
If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through this
email account:jmtn@box.az.
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 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 am happily married with two kids.
I send you this mail not without a measure of fear as to what the
consequences might be, 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.
I await your response.
Regards,
Jacob Mouton
jmtn@box.az
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