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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 John Smith" <johnsmith@barcleysbank.com>
Reply-To: john_smith_2006_2006@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 15:05:37 +0000
Subject: FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
FROM TRUSTEE DEPT EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK
>From The Desk of: JOHN SMITH
Head of Trustee and Depository
Institutional Fund Services.
Hi,
I am Mr. JOHN SMITH Head of Trustee and Depository Institutional
Fund Services EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK, I am contacting you concerning a
deceased customer, and an investment he placed under our banks management
3years 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 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 Trustee and
Depository Institutional Fund Services division EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK. He
informed us
that he had a financial portfolio of $14.5 million USD, which he wished to
have us turn over (invest) on his behalf.
I was the officer assigned to his account, I made numerous suggestions in line
with my duties as the de-facto chief operations officer of Trustee and
Depository Institutional Fund Services division EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK,
especially given
the volume of funds he wished to put into our division.
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 $6 million USD, this margin
was not the full potential of the fund but the
desired low risk guaranteed returns on investments.
I informed him that EQUITORIAL TRUST 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. Large cash
movements have become especially strict since the incidents of 9/11. I
contacted my affiliate and had the funds available as he had requested.
I undertook all the processes and made sure I followed his precise
instructions to the latter and had the funds deposited with a security
consultancy firm. This security firm is a specially 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 them. He 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
2004.
I was the only one who knew about the deposit at the security company, and I
could not understand why our client had not come forward to claim his deposit.
I made futile efforts to locate him, and iimmediately passed the task of
locating him to the internalinvestigations department of NATWEST BANK.Four
days later, information started to trickle in, apparently our man 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 confirm all of this including cause of
death. 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. 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. It is quite clear now that
our dear fellow died with no known or identifiable family members.
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 company
will by the end of DECEMBER 2006, broadcast a request for statements of
claim to EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK, failing to receive viable claims they will
most
probably revert the deposit to EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK. This will result in the
money entering the EQUITORIAL TRUST BANK accounting system.
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 berrational. The
world of Trustee and Depository Institutional Fund Services division
NATWEST especially is fraught with huge rewards for those who sit upon
certain chairs and oversee certain portfolios. You should have begun by
now to put together the general direction of what I propose.
There is $14,500,000.00 USD deposited in a security company. I alone
have the deposit details and they will release the deposit to no one
unless I instruct them to do so.
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; you share similar details to the late fellow; I am prepared to
instruct the security company 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 45/45,while 10% is
been mapped out incase of any expenses as we proceed into this MUTUAL
transaction. 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
our late client. I will then officially communicate with the security company
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 company 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
directly from the security company as it is not a conventional financial
institution; they accept deposits from only organizations thus; what
you hand over to them is what you get back. They do not have the means to
process the money.
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 A.S.A.P. If you give me positive signals, I
will give you the relevant details and initiate this process towards a
conclusion.
Please, again, note I am a family man, I have 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.
Sincerely,
JOHN SMITH
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