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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: "AMIN KHAN" <amin_khan44@movemail.com> (may be fake)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:04:11 -0400
Subject: YOU MUST SEE THIS
Good day,
I am Amin Khan, staff of Royal Bank of Canada. 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 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
2002, 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 Six Million United States dollars, which he wished to have
us turn over (invest) on his behalf. I was 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 then, 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
One 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 2003, he asked that the money be liquidated because he needed to
make an urgent investment requiring cash payments in Helsinki- Finland.
He directed that I liquidate the funds and deposit it with a security
firm. I informed him that my 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 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 of
November2003. 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
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 Royal Bank of Canada. 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 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
ate state. 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 present official capacity as the Head of Finance 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, 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 toRoyal Bank of Canada,
failing to receive viable claims they will most probably revert the
deposit back to Royal Bank of Canada. This will result in the money
entering theRoyal Bank of Canada 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 that 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 Six 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 my Bank 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. This bank has spent great amounts of
money trying to track this man's family; they have investigated for months
and have found no family. The investigation has come to an end. My
proposal: I now seek your permission to present you as a next of kin to the
deceased, as all documentations will be carefully worked to make you the
beneficiary to the funds $6,000 000 00 (Six Million United states Dollar);
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.
That is: I will simply nominate you as the next of kin and have them
release the deposit to you. We share the proceeds 60/40.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
assure you that I could have the deposit released to you within a few days. I
will simply inform Royal Bank of Canada 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 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 won't 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 luck that has
planted you into the center of relevance in my life. Let's share the
blessing. If you find yourself able to work with me, contact me through
this email account. 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 myself.
My official lines are not secured 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 that 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. Please send your reply to this email:
amin_khan44y@movemail.com
I await your response.
Amin Khan.
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