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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: Mr David Palmer <davidpalmer0023@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:51:04 -0300
Subject: URGENT RESPONSE NEEDED.
Goodday,
I am David Palmer, staff of SMITH & WILLIAMSON Private
Banking.I am contacting you concerning a deceased
customer and an investment he placed under our banks
management three years ago.I 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
contacted 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; came to our bank to engage in business
discussions with our private banking division. He
informed us that he had a financial portfolio of
Thirty million united states dollars,which he wished
to have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.Iwas 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
sector, 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 advise 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 ten 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
here in the united kingdom. He directed that I
liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security
firm. I informed him that SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 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 2003.In June last
year, we got a call from the security firm informing
us that 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 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 to the internal investigations department
of SMITH & WILLIAMSON. 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, 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, in this
case; the deceased died without a testate. In line
with our internal processes for account holders who
have passed away, we instituted our own investigations
in good faith to determine who should have right to
claim the estate. This investigation has for the past
months been unfruitful.
We have scanned every continent and used our private
investigation affiliate companies to get to the root
of the problem. It is this investigation that resulted
in my being furnished with your details as a possible
relative of the deceased. 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. What this means, you
being the last batch of names we have considered, 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.
According to practice, The Security Firm will by the
end of this financial year broadcast a request for
statements of claim to SMITH & WILLIAMSON,failing to
receive viable claims they will most probably revert
the deposit back to SMITH & WILLIAMSON. This will
result in the money entering the SMITH &WILLIAMSON
accounting system and the portfolio will be out of my
hands and out of the private banking division. This
will not happen if I have my way.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 Thirty 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 SMITH & WILLIAMSON 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 whats 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 mans family;
they have investigated for months and have found no
family.
The investigation has come to an end.My proposal; you
share the same surname With our late client; 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 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, you with
the same very name as the original depositor would
easily pass as the beneficiary with right to claim. I
assure you that I could have the deposit released to
you within a few days. I will simply inform the bank
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 alternative would be for us to have The Security
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 Security
Company. 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 and 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, for once I find myself in
total control of my destiny. These chances wont 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. Lets share the blessing.If you find yourself
able to work with me, contact me through this email
account:david_palmer0023uk@yahoo.co.uk 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 the numbers I will
provide for you and also 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 have a wife
and children. I send you this mail not without a
measure of fear as to what the consequences, 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. Kindly send your response to my private
email address: david_palmer0023uk@yahoo.co.uk
I await your response.
David Palmer.
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