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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: "Kato Yoshida" <yoshida.jp@hotmail.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:21:19 +0000
Subject: From: Mr. Kato Yoshida
FROM THE DESK OF:
MR. KATO YOSHIDA
BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI
U. F .J BANK
ROPPONGI BRANCH
JAPAN.
Email: kato.yoshida@hotmail.com
Dear Friend,
How are you today and business in your country? I am Mr. Kato Yoshida, Bank
Manager of Tokyo Mitsubishi ufj Bank, Tokyo Branch. I had to use this means
to get your contact as i want to be sure you could really assist me with
this transaction. 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 know you would
be wondering why I am writing you with a request such as this but I only
urge you to read on.
Sometime in 1999, a certain consultant/contractor Mr. Glen Hatleberg made a
numbered time (Fixed) Deposit for twelve calendar months, valued at large
amount (Amount withheld for known reasons) in my branch. Upon maturity, I
sent a routine notification to his forwarding address in America but got no
reply. After a month, we sent a reminder and finally we discovered from his
contract employers, the Japanese Solid Minerals Corporation that Mr. Glen
Hatleberg died longside his wife, from an airplane crash. Further proof of
the death of Mr. Glen Hatleberg is in the following web pages for you to
make confirmations and further research about his death:
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/02/01/alaska.airlines.list/index.html
http://html.thenewmexicochannel.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-20000201-133854.html
http://www.alamo-girl.com/0366.htm
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. Private banking clients apart from not
nominating any next of kin also usually in most cases leave WILLS in our
care, in this case; Mr. Glen Hatleberg died intestate.
In line with our internal processes for account holders who have passed
away, my bank conducted a search in good faith to determine who should have
right to claim the estate. This has for the past months been unfruitful.
This sum has since been sitting in my bank and the interest is being rolled
over with the principal sum at the end of each year. No one, it is evident
is going to come forward for it. According to the Laws of my environment, at
the expiration of 7(seven) years, the money will revert to the ownership of
the Japanese Government if nobody applies to claim the funds. 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 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 as I alone have the deposit details
and they will release the deposit to no one unless evidence of relationship
with the deceased, which I shall provide you with, is presented. I alone
know of the existence of this deposit for as far as the Bank of Tokyo
Mitsubishi is concerned, the bank's management has no single idea of the
history or nature of the deposit. They are simply awaiting instructions to
release the deposit to the party that comes forward. This is the situation.
My bank has spent great amounts of money trying to track this man's family;
they have investigated for months and have found no relative. The
investigation has come to an end.
Consequently, what I propose is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand
in as the next of kin to Mr. Glen Hatleberg so that the fruits of this old
man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government
officials. Acting in this capacity really is simple as I will explain in
detail to you when I get your response. However, I wish to state that
because of my level of involvement, when you are awarded the funds and it
has been paid into your account, it will be shared 60/30 between us and the
outstanding 10% for miscellaneous/incurred expenses. Being aware of this
request I am making, 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.
You may not know this but people like me 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.
If you will not work with me let me know and I will move on with my life but
do not destroy me. I am a family man and this is an opportunity to provide
my family with new opportunities. The reward for this project makes 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.
Please, again, note I am a family man; I have a wife and children, 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.
Please, send your response to: kato.yoshida@hotmail.com
Yours Sincerely,
Mr. Kato Yoshida.
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