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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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From: Douglas Johnson <dg_johnson66@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:16:05 +0100 (BST)
Subject: How're you doing today?
Dear Friend,
I am contacting you concerning a deceased customer and an investment he placed under our my company's three years ago 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 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 the year 2003, the subjects matter; came to our office to engage in business discussions with us. He informed us that he had a financial portfolio of Twelve million United States dollars, which he wished to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.
I personally decided to take care of his case; I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto chief executive officer of the company, 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 6000 traditional stocks and bond managers and 2000 managers of 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 Two million United States Dollars, this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
In November 2004, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki-Finland where he is going into partnership with a firm that has won a contract to build a housing estate outside Helsinki. He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security firm. I informed him that the company would have to make special arrangements to have this done and in order not to circumvent due process, the company 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 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 with the security firm. The Security 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 with the security firm. 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 2005.In June last year, we got a call from the security firm informing us
about the inactivity of that particular portfolio.
This was an astounding position as far as I was concerned, given the fact that I undertook the transaction myself I was the only one who knew about the deposit at the security firm, 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 a private investigating firm.
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 canne, in Southern part of France. We were soon enough to identify the body and cause of death was confirmed. The company 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 trading companies affairs, those who patronize our services usually prefer anonymity, but also some levels of detachment from conventional processes.
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. The situation now 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.
You should have begun by now to put together the general direction of what I propose. There is Twelve million dollars deposited in a security firm, 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 company is concerned.
The transaction with our late customer concluded when I sent the funds to the security firm, all outstanding interactions in relation to the file are just customer services and due process. The security 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 come forward. This is the situation.
My proposal;I am prepared to place you in a position to instruct The security 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. 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 that the funds be released to me, but that would have drawn a straight line to me and my involvement in claiming the deposit.
I can assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I will simply inform the company of the final closing of the file relating to the deceased I will then officially communicate with The Security Firm and instruct them to release the deposit to you. With these two things: all is done.The fund are stacked in two trunk boxes and deposited with the security firm as containing very valuable famili heirlomms and paintings.The plan is to ship the boxes the way they are via a Diplomatic courier means such that it can pass customs, Nacotics and any other government agencies involved in trans- border and port of entry checks because of the diplomatic immnunity they have.
My intention is to get the boxes to you this way out of the United Kingdom. Immediately you give me positive signals, we will fine tune the details together.I await your response to enable me know how to proceed
Sincerely,
Douglas Johnson Markhalm.
Wosh Bosh Corporation UK.
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