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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: "Chen Qingxuan" <Chen555Qingxuan@netscape.net> (may be fake)
Reply-To: Chen85Qingxuan@netscape.net
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:51:13 +0100
Subject: bussines proposal
Chen Qingxuan
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 4 years ago.
In 2001, the subject matter; ref: bb/tsb/bank/73 came to our bank to
engage in Private Banking services, I was the officer assigned to his
case. We met on numerous occasions prior to any investments being
placed. I encouraged him to consider various growth funds with prime
ratings. 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 line with the instructions he had earlier given to liquidate the
funds after 3 years in order for him to make some Investment requiring
cash payments in Europe,I followed his instructions and I later made
numerous attempt to contact him after 3 years in order to get further
instructions from him.I made futile efforts to locate him and I
immediately passed the task of locating him to the internal
investigations department of our bank. 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.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.
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 my Bank to do so.
I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct my Bank 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,
Chen Qingxuan
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