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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: "Consulting-Officer" <donez100@getsemani.com.br>
Reply-To: donez202@myway.com
Date: 03 Jul 2006 09:42:12 -0300
Subject: Official Info!!
OFFICIAL INFO!!!
Thank you for giving me your time.I want you to pay special attention to what I am about to tell you.First,my name is Dr.Donald Ez,a consultant on investment working with the Dept.Of Private Banking,Suisse Banc Corporation.I make this contact to you independently as a result of our internal audit investigation where some facts emerged and which no one else has been informed of except this communication with you.I would like to intimate you with these facts which I believe would be of interest to you.I contacted you personally concerning a customer of this bank who had an investment placed under our bank's management 5 years ago.On May 22,2000,an American accountant and consultant on Oil matters with Sasol Oil and exploration pty,Mr.Robert J.Gerlich 56,made an investment deposit valued at $10.2 Million in this bank,which he wished to have us turn over on his behalf.
I was the officer assigned to his case,in the course of this assignment,I made numerous suggestions in line with my duties as the de-facto investment consultant to the Bank 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 favoured route in my advice to customers is to start by assessing data on 600 traditional stocks and bonds and other 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 $12.6 Million,this margin was not the full potential of the fund but he desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
In August 2001,he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in America.He directed that I liquidate the funds and had it deposited with J.P.MORGAN CHASE,a top US bank.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 an 9.5% deduction from the funds to cater for banking and statutory charges.He complained about the charges but later compromised when I explained to him the complexities of the task he was asking from us.I contacted my affiliate in US,however,the exercise was not immediately carried out due to the complex nature of the task.He told me he would use the money thereafter upon his arrival from PARIS later that week.This was the last communication we had,this transpired around 10th September 2001,Four days later,information started to trickle in,that he was among victims of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack.
On hearing about this information,the bank immediately launched an extensive investigation into possible surviving next of kin to alert about the situation and also to come forward to claim his deposit.In his bio-data form,he listed no next of kin.In the field of private banking,opening an account 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.As things stands now,there is over $14.5 Million as value for his investment.The bank has no single idea of 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 tree;they have investigated for months and have found no known relative because the fund was deposited with codes and not name.The investigation has already come to an end.
I am prepared to place you in a position and instruct the bank to release the deposit to you as the closest surviving relation since I had the code number.Upon receipt of the deposit,I am prepared to share the money with you in half and no more.That is,we share the proceeds 50/50.We can fine-tune this based on our interactions and with my position in the bank,we can get things done in a smooth way.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 the bank.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 get on immediately.
I await your response.
Sincerely,
Dr.Donald Ez.
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