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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: "Mr Cheung pui" <hangseng006@gmail.com>
Reply-To: write_cheungpui@yahoo.com.hk
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:30:46 +0200
Subject: YOUR ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED URGENTLY.
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,
Mr Cheung pui.
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